Publisher's Synopsis
My New Home In 2013, while completing her training session in a community resource centre in Ottawa, Canada, Illuminée Kanazayire began to think seriously about the meaning of starting a new life somewhere else. She was working in a food bank. People came in to register, and were referred to staff members who gave them food according to their needs. Some people were used to this, and might even get impatient if they were not served immediately. However, other people were shy, apologizing for even being there. One glimpse was enough for her to understand that she was in the presence of people who had once been affluent, but who just now found themselves at the first level of Maslow's hierarchy of needs. Some of these people were native-born Canadians, but many of them were immigrants. It was at that moment that she felt the need to help immigrants, as much as she could, to launch their new life more easily and feel less troubled about seeking happiness away from home. Such is the goal of this book. When Illuminée Kanazayire returned to Rwanda after thirty-five years of exile living in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Burundi, she attended several personal development workshops. She worked for sixteen years among Rwandans who were overcoming psychological damage. She holds a diploma in Social Work Techniques from Collège d'Arts Appliqués et de Technologi in Ottawa.
