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Zimbabwe Kanyambali: Refugee Camp

zimbabwe kanyambali: If all goes as planned, Quinn will help privately sponsor a family of seven currently living in a refugee camp in Zimbabwe, according to CBC. Kanyambali fled his home in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and lived for three years in a refugee camp in Zimbabwe. I knew he was also supporting his family in Africa but I didn't know the details of his story," said Kaleigh Quinn, an English as a second language instructor at Red River College. He and his wife came to Canada in 2013 as government sponsored refugees, but his wife brother, sister-in-law and five nieces and nephews were left behind. Now they stopped and tried to give people money," said Kanyambali. Since arriving in Canada, conditions in the camp have worsened. "Before you went and they give you 10 kilograms of meal and two kilograms of rice, two kilograms of beans and two small bottle of cooking oil. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.