Ayeshe Mino: Ayeshe

Marrianne Dept: Ayeshe Mino named her daughter, the one who would become her angel, Marrianne, according to Vancouver Sun. As Ayeshe describes this today, Marrianne, now 24, sits next to her in a Burnaby gym, their glowing, sculpted bodies bearing witness to the power of their determination to survive. The mother-and-daughter body-building pair are the picture of health, bearing few of the scars of their tumultuous early journeys and in 1988, a 16-year-old girl held a bundle of promise in a refugee camp in Iraq, wondering what would become of the dark-haired, dark-eyed little beauty in her young arms. The teenage mother s life had been so fraught with uncertainty, she couldn t envisage any kind of a future for her newborn, much less the stormy journey they were about to embark upon. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.