Source: Ottawa Sun, by Kimothy Walker
In what looks increasingly like an intolerant world, meeting people with a passion for helping others is an inspiration.
While many of us are focused on our jobs and our families, we rarely find the time to help strangers — at least not every day. Sometimes we forget just how much of an impact we can have on people’s lives. And then we meet someone like Zaina Sovani.
Sovani is proof that helping others transcends materialistic success.
As a 12-year-old girl, Sovani and her family were forced to leave Uganda in the early 1970s when, under the dictatorship of president Idi Amin, all of the country’s Asian minority were expelled. They were given 90 days to leave.
With nothing more than a small suitcase packed with clothes, the world Sovani had known her entire life became nothing but a memory as she started a new life in Canada.
But she also brought with her a mindset that at the centre of everything is family and community.
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