November Adoption awareness month is a wonderful time to celebrate adoption locally and internationally. While we know children wait for families around the globe there are over 1200 children who wait for families in BC. Adoption continues to be an extraordinary way to create your family
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November is Adoption Awareness Month
‘Family Love’ Elsa Piassa
Elsa had an innate passion for her career “I had always loved to make people look beautiful. Now I can put that to work here, that is what I love about the salon.” Piassa is not only her last name, but also the name of her birth place. “There is a little town in Ethiopia called Piassa where I grew up. I wanted to name the salon after my home.”
The Black History on Salt Spring Island
Evelyn C. White The Afro News Salt Spring Island With the blockbuster success of his book Roots (1976) and the subsequent television miniseries, author Alex Haley tapped into a deep longing among the descendants of enslaved blacks to claim ties with our African forebears. It was my understanding of this history that prompted me to
Building a School in Duk Padiet, South Sudan
David Schroeder The Afro International As a seven-year-old boy Jacob Deng fled his village in southern Sudan, Duk Padiet, in the province of Jonglei, narrowly escaping the death and destruction brought by militias from the north. The trek was a harrowing journey first to Ethiopia, and then back through Sudan to a massive refugee camp