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Sarah Al-Kinani and Marie Rose Place

Marie Rose Place: Marie Rose Place, a 38,000-square-foot, 40-unit, six-storey building that cost $11 million, is an edifice where my happiness reached the sky, said Sarah Al-Kinani during the event, according to Metro News. I was full of hope, I wanted to live my dreams in a safe country like Canada, but I was also afraid of the challenges I would have of the language barrier, she said and A new affordable downtown housing unit aimed at immigrant and refugee women was officially unveiled Friday. Al-Kinani, originally from Iraq who immigrated to Canada from Lebanon in 2011, said she was alone, a recent high school graduate with only a minimum-wage job, and unable to afford the place where she was living when she was connected with Marie Rose Place. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.