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by Cassandra Szklarski · National PostJosephine Sindani’s first memory of using a food bank is a happy one.
She was eight years old and still adjusting to the shock of an Ottawa winter after recently moving from Halifax, where she and her mom arrived in Canada from Sudan about two years earlier. One day she saw her pregnant mother approaching their home, trudging through snow and carrying a “big bag of toys.”