The youngest victim was a nine-month-old baby who was the only Canadian citizen in her family. Accompanied by her grandmother, mom and two siblings, she was going to see her grandfather for the first time in Kenya.
One of the youngest victims of the Ethiopian Airlines crash is nine-month-old Canadian Rubi Pauls, who was on the way to Kenya from Ontario to meet her grandfather for the first time for Easter.
He said his 37-year-old sister hadn’t visited Kenya for decades. Her daughters, 14-year-old Ashka and 13-year-old Anushka, were looking forward to going on a safari, he said. Prerit worked as a medical lab assistant for LifeLabs and also held a job at Ontario’s Ministry of Health. Kosha used to work for the Canadian Hearing Society, said Manant.Adesanmi was a Nigerian-born professor in the Department of English Language and Literature and the Institute of African Studies at Carleton University in Ottawa.
Mitchell Dick, a Carleton student in communications, said Adesanmi was “extremely nice and approachable,” and stood out for his passion for African literature.Angela Rehhorn, 24, was an enthusiastic conservation volunteer from Orillia, Ont., who was developing a citizen science project on bat conservation.
“She was full of excitement and the optimism of youth and wanting to change the world and work on changing the world. And that’s what she was doing,” Bates said. She graduated in 2015 with an honours degree in International Development and Globalization from the University of Ottawa. Parvati says Belanger had taken time off from PCL and was travelling to Nairobi for the United Nations Environment Assembly.
Genevieve MacRae recalled how deMarsh and his wife Jean Burgess helped establish the Taymouth Community Association in central New Brunswick more than a decade ago. In an Instagram post, he said he had been selected by the United Nations Association of Canada to attend the assembly and was travelling to Kenya where he would “have the chance to meet with other passionate youth and leaders from around the world and explore how we can tackle the biggest challenges that are facing our generation.”
Drees said Messent was part of a group of about a dozen Indigenous Studies students who wanted to make the world a better place. Prior to that, the UNHCR said Hyba worked for Care Canada, who did not immediately respond to request for comment.A 24-year-old marine biology student from Winnipeg, Moore graduated from Dalhousie University in Halifax in 2017.
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