Jemal Damtawe of Coquitlam, is the 2016 Courage To Come Back Award recipient in the Addiction category.
JEMAL DAMTAWE NAMED COURAGE TO COME BACK AWARD RECIPIENT At age 15 in war-torn Ethiopia, he became a child soldier – at the point of a gun. His first escape, stowed away on a cargo ship, left him swimming for his life with other boys, two of whom drowned. In 1986, still a teenager, he […]