Halton Women's Place Event and Burlington Holiday Inn

Burlington Holiday Inn: The Halton Women's Place event is on Friday, March 7, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., at the Burlington Holiday Inn, 3063 South Service Rd. , according to Hamilton Spectator. When the war ended, Kamara came to Canada as a refugee, enrolled in English classes in Toronto, graduated from high school and learned to live independently without her hands. A survivor of civil war in Africa will give the keynote speech at an International Women's Day luncheon. Mariatu Kamara was a child victim of the civil war in Sierra Leone. She was among about 20,000 people half of them children who were maimed during the bloody conflict that devastated her West African country from 1991 to 2002. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.