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Family: Sierra Leone and People

family: She immediately began taking courses and volunteering on many, many boards, according to CBC. De Ciman who is a nominee for CBC's iamSK project credits the people she and her family first met in Saskatchewan for seeing them not as poor refugees but as people with something to contribute. Originally from Sierra Leone in northern Africa, she and her family settled in Regina in the early '90s. When I think about when we came as newcomers, if we did not meet these strategic people that were standing there waiting for us, we would not have made it. Everybody can do something. Even though we had the ability, we would not have made it, she said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.