Moss Park: Subsidized Apartment

Teen Mothers Dept: Her parents had divorced when she was 7 and her mother, a hotel cleaner, didn t like the schools in Moss Park where they lived in a subsidized apartment. So she sent Nuamah by public transit to a predominantly white, middle-class public school north of Bloor St, according to The Star. But Nuamah couldn t help seeing the disconnect between her white school friends and the black girls in her neighbourhood, many of whom were dropping out of school and becoming teen mothers and when Olivia Nuamah thinks back to her Toronto childhood in the 1980s, she remembers the loneliness of living in two worlds. She wanted more for me, Nuamah says of her mother, an immigrant from the West African country of Ghana. As reported in the news.
@t bloor st, dropping out of school