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Newly arrived family can’t wait to celebrate Canada Day
The Chawacks are settling in with school and work plans after arriving as government-assisted refugees, and they will celebrate Canada Day with residents.
Members of the Chawack family couldn’t believe their luck when the Canadian government placed them in Nanaimo in October. Nyatouk, her daughter Gloria and brother Ken are from South Sudan, where they were forced to flee their home a number of years ago as the civil war in that African country began to heat up again. They spent years living as refugees in Egypt, before the Canadian government allowed them to come to this country as government-ass…