Jacqueline Addo remembers the time two years ago when her husband Joshua confided to her that the stress of adjusting to life in Canada from Ghana was proving too much for him to bear.
He had reached a breaking point, and her own mental health wasnāt great.
āI was just a shadow of myself, basically,ā she said.
Joshua was struggling to find a jobĀ in his field as a financial adviser, and hadĀ instead worked stints at a courierĀ company and at Costco.
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With Jacqueline looking after their children, they were unable to make ends meet on one salary and had to borrow money from family and



