My goal is always to help people: Vanier College valedictorian

When 17-year-old Kreztorv Patricio Fugaban and his family arrived in Montreal from the Philippines in late January of 2013, it was as frigid out as it had been hot in his hometown of Calaban. With only a thin jacket, he recalled, “it was so cold; I had no idea.”
They had only their clothes “and some money in our pockets.” He couldn’t speak English well, and he knew no French. For the first few months he, his parents and his two brothers bunked in with an uncle who s