09-12-2017 13:00 via montrealgazette.com

Christmas Fund 2017: Grandmother struggles to support children

When her daughter died almost two years ago, it was no question for Pauline that she would be the one to take in her four grandchildren.
So almost immediately after their mother’s death, the kids, all between the ages of 10 and 20, moved to Canada from Cameroon to be with her, she explained.
She had arrived a decade earlier, in 2005. She was fleeing an abusive husband. He had multiple wives, she explained, and would regularly hurt them. She said he had sent her to the hospital multiple tim
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