An Evening with Ruth Beardsley: A Reading & Screening – My Heart in Kenya

Join us as Ruth Beardsley, former CCRR manager and Options Community Services Senior Manager, shares a screening of this remarkable story of family reunification.

Zeynab had to make an impossible choice. While fleeing with her children to Canada from a Kenyan refugee camp, she was forced to leave the youngest, baby Nasteha, behind. Ruth Beardsley heard this harrowing story while working with Zeynab in the Surrey First Steps Early Years Refugee Program. Ruth decided to do something incredible: Travel to Nairobi and return Nasteha to her mother in Canada.

My Heart in Kenya follows Ruth’s journey to Kenya as she navigates the seemingly insurmountable barriers that split Zeynab’s family apart. The documentary is a rare look at the personal reunification story of a family that has settled in Surrey.