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The desire to provide a faith-based, assisted living home for Cleo, their developmentally disabled daughter, led George and Athena Pappas to work with a Special Education Ministry in their church in January 2000.
Soon Monika and Robert Newman joined in the vision and Protected Harbor was founded as a faith-based, non-profit, fund raising organization for construction and maintenance of Group Homes for Developmentally Disabled Adults.
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