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Arriving in 2018 with two children, Amina built a career in law — and her kids found music.
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Bola arrived in Toronto eight months pregnant. The shelter that took her in that night was Sojourn House — and the stability she found there carried her through delivery, paperwork and job hunting.
She was hired by one of Canada’s top-five banks — an achievement that, as she notes, “made news in the Toronto Star at the time.”
Today Bola is a Sojourn House donor. The baby she carried in 2016 grew up watching their mother rebuild — and give back.
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