Group Homes: Acsana Fernando

Acsana Fernando: She has worked in restaurants, security and factories. She now works night shifts at group homes where she helps care for physically and mentally disabled residents employment secured through a temp agency. , according to Huffington Post. Fernando makes $10.25 an hour at the group homes, the minimum wage in Ontario. Her usual monthly take-home pay after taxes is between $1,100 and $1,300, she says. The family gets a small amount of extra money from Fernandos fathers monthly disability cheque. Since moving to Canada from Bangladesh as a refugee in 2002, 33-year-old Acsana Fernando has not been able to earn much more than the minimum wage. "When I came here, I thought any sort of job will help me to reach my goal," she says. "But now I realize its not easy. I m working so hard, and still I am working poor." (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.