May 10, 2009 03:20 PM – Almost 40 years ago, 17-year-old Rahim Mawani’s mother was one of the 80,000 South Asians expelled from Uganda, and Italy was one of the few countries that took them in.
Affected by the earthquake that devastated Italy in April, Mawani and his nine-year-old brother Amyn felt the urge to host a charity barbecue in Mississauga yesterday to support the country that helped their relatives in the 1970s.
The earthquake killed more than 150 people and injured thousands more in the Italian city of L’Aquila, about 120 km northeast of Rome.
“We wanted to remember how the Italian people helped out our community,” said Rahim, a Grade 12 student from Father Michael Goetz Secondary School.
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The Mawani brothers got the idea for the foundation after years of taking part in The World Partnership Walk, Canada’s largest annual event dedicated to increasing awareness and raising funds to fight global poverty.
via Ending poverty a burger at a time – The Mississauga News – Mississauga.com.
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