“It was rough, but that was the reality of life,” Shumbusho said of being a refugee from age nine to 14 before coming to Canada. “You mature very quickly at a young age. It moulded me, especially in terms of work ethic. Nothing is given without it.” There were two rooms for a family of five, one of which was his mother’s tiny shop during the day and a bedroom by night. But the two parents and three children got by. There are small mercies even in the most dire of circumstances. Uganda is a Commonwealth nation so Shumbusho was able to pick up English, which held him in good stead when he started school in Chilliwack.
ABINGTON Route 152 (Limekiln Pike) is scheduled to close between Willow Grove Avenue and Mount Carmel Avenue in Cheltenham and Abington townships, on Monday, March 22, through Friday, March 26, from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m. for bridge construction under a project to rehabilitate the structure tha… More Headlines