Mariam Makhniashvili: Camilleri

Valentina Camilleri Dept: Starting a new school would be an adjustment, Valentina Camilleri explained to Mariam Makhniashvili and her younger brother, George. It s never easy leaving your friends behind and getting used to the system would take time, according to The Star. That was the last time Camilleri saw Mariam. Days later, on the morning of Sept. 14, 2009, the 17-year-old disappeared while walking to school with her brother and days before friends reunited in the hallways of a north Toronto high school for fall semester, a brother and sister sat silently inside Forest Hill Collegiate as the school s settlement worker explained the ins and outs of life in Toronto. The Makhniashvili siblings had moved to Canada just three months earlier from Tbilisi, in the Republic of Georgia, to reunite with their parents. Mariam, about to start Grade 11 that September, spoke little English and had no friends. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.