Bola’s Story
Arrived eight months pregnant; built a career at one of Canada’s top banks — and became a donor.
Read storyHenry Ford
A writer by trade, Henry Ford documented his own arrival with a journalist’s precision and a poet’s eye — the shelters, the paperwork, the city that didn’t yet know him.
He describes a hip surgery at Sunnybrook, the rhythm of shelter life, a weekly allowance of $26.25, and the staff — Shaun, Fatima, Jesús, Laulleen — who made an institution feel human.
His piece is one of the most moving documents in our archive: proof that a story told honestly can build more understanding than a thousand statistics.
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A family separated by war in Afghanistan, reunited in Toronto in February 2014.
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Arriving in 2017, Izehi found caseworkers, TTC tokens, an on-site health clinic — and a path to university.
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