What a success story!  Rabea Has a good job in his field, that he found on his own.  After a year of guidance and help from the Dames for Humanity, all is well.  The family is self-supporting and the Children’s English is amazing. Mara is the stalwart keeping it all together and feeing all in true Eastern traditions.

As Rabi said he arrived with a family of 6 members and he was scare and now has another 8 wonderful Canadian women, some of whom were immigrants themselves, who selfishly helped all the Sibais’ through the trials and tribulation of moving to Canada. A new foreign place of snow and cold, new customs, new schools, new food and new language.  They made it!

Here is a small tribute to them and the Canadians that helped as we all celebrated their first year in Toronto Canada.

When they arrived:

Syrian Family from R Henderson on Vimeo.

One year later:

Sibai Family 1st Anniversary from R Henderson on Vimeo.

The Liberal Canadian Government’s program of private sponsorship is, in this case, a success story of quick effective integration, so that our new comers are up, productive and running as fast as they can.  This of course is no mean feat and shows the motivation of “Our Family”

Thank you  Rabi, Msadi, Lutfi, Ghaith, Baraa and Zaid for being our friends and New Canadians.

RH 2018/01