graduates with pride.Homayra Ahmed hit the grounds of McMaster University this week to celebrate her achievements as one of the recent grads of the nursing program.“I can’t even believe it,” Ahmed’s mother, Mahfuza Akther, said through tears.
Principals, school boards question Ontario’s plan to host outdoor graduations The journey for Ahmed to get to this point has not been easy.
She is the eldest of four girls, whose parents immigrated to Canada from Bangladesh. Home has not always been a safe place.“Throughout my childhood, I was a victim of domestic abuse,” said Ahmed. “So that’s one of the reasons in my third year of nursing I had to flee my home.”Along with her mother and three sisters, they all left their home in Hamilton, Ont.