Scholarships awarded to students with parents who served, died in CAF [Video]

Eighteen students with parents who served in the Canadian Armed Forces and died were awarded scholarships in a special ceremony held in downtown Toronto.

Canada Company, which focuses on bridging Canadian society and military communities to support families, awarded $5,000 scholarships to further their education.

Sarina Lizott, 23, studies management at Western University and spoke on behalf of all of the recipients at the ceremony. In 2020, she lost her dad in a workplace accident.

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“It’s an honour to get the scholarship, and it’s just incredible to be here with everybody, and the fact that people are respecting the fallen parents, it’s such a moving thing to be a part of,” Lizott told CTV News Toronto.

Kayla Williams, 19, is studying to be a dental hygienist in Moncton. She was just two years old when a roadside bomb killed her dad in Afghanistan

“He was not actually supposed to go …