Naser Kaid: Surgery

Canada Dept: What Kaid can afford from his wages as a Toronto taxi driver, he sends home to his mother. It s usually $50 to $100 each month and it s the only income she has. Last November she needed surgery. Kaid scraped together the money to cover the operation. He considers it his responsibility, according to The Chronicle Herald. In 2010, immigrants to Canada sent more than $12 billion to support the families they left behind. To put it in perspective, that s four billion more than all the money Canadians gave to charity, and over six billion more than Canada spent on international aid that same year and in 1988, Naser Kaid left his home in the Ethiopian city of Jimma to seek opportunity here in Canada. His widowed mother stayed behind, and today Kaid is her only lifeline. Life is hard here, Kaid says. But at the same time you have to remember those elsewhere. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.