Idil Timayare

Idil Timayare: Misfortune follows the North End single mom with six kids everywhere. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. When Idil Timayare was reunited with her parents in Winnipeg in 2011, her troubles didn't end. She was run down by a cab this past winter, days before a crucial refugee hearing. As luck would have it, the Immigration and Refugee Board member hearing her case had a track record of rejection -- saying no to 180 refugee claimants out of 210 cases heard in 2011. With a busted foot and fuzzy on prescription painkillers, 31-year-old Timayare testified on behalf of herself and her six young kids and lost. Idil Timayare and her six children at home in the North End. She holds daughter, Samira, and is surrounded by sons from left Salman, Zakariya, Soyan, Harrun and Ahmed kneeling . When she was nine, her family fled mayhem in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu. They took shelter in a refugee camp in Kenya that locals torched, scattering many families, including hers. At 15, she was alone and fled to South Africa, already flooded with unwelcome refugees. By the time she was 28, she was a single parent of six and driven out again by locals who beat her husband until he fled and burned down their small shop. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.