In Focus with Raquel Silva

Being an international student has a lot of struggles dealing with it. Most of the time, they move here by themselves without their family and leaving their friends behind. Due to the ongoing pandemic, immigrants can’t visit home. SO they are feeling homesick and have to be lockdown by themselves. With language and culture barriers, they feel left alone.

In this episode of In Focus by U Multicultural, Mark interviews one of his former classmates named Raquel Silva, on the struggles she faced while moving to Canada. Raquel was born in Brazil and moved to Winnipeg 3 years later. To help her get a better education. But with moving into a new country, she faced many difficulties

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