Rosimay Venancio and Mentorship Program

mentorship program: As reported in the Star earlier this month, Venancio, 25, is being honoured for overcoming adversity and creating a mentorship program to help teens in foster care transition to independent living, according to Metro News. But Venancio efforts to get a passport to travel to the Buckingham Palace ceremony hit a dead-end Friday night when federal citizenship officials refused to expedite her Canadian citizenship and She has her airline ticket and hotel reservations, but barring a miracle former foster child Rosimay Venancio won t be going to London to receive a prestigious leadership award from the Queen on Monday. The Toronto woman is among 60 young people in the Commonwealth and only three in Canada receiving the Queen Young Leaders Award for transforming her life and the lives of others. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.