It’s not exactly what Joseph Nwaeze imagined his new home in Canada would look like when he fled Nigeria last October seeking safety and a better life.
At the moment, home for him consists of the top of a bunk bed in a 60-foot trailer he shares with at least a dozen other men. It’s one of four makeshift shelters on a sprawling Greenbelt property in north Vaughan owned by evangelical church Miracle Arena for All Nations that has been housing asylum seekers since last summer.