Mohammed Kurdi, his wife and five children will land in Canada as refugees, sponsored by Mohammed’s sister Tima Kurdi, who has become a spokeswoman for people fleeing Syria since her nephew’s death.
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A welcoming party awaited with flowers, balloons and signs to welcome them to Canada. Faces were cradled in hands and the youngest child, a baby boy, was passed around.
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“Thank you to the Canadian people”, she said.
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An official with Citizenship and Immigration Canada invited Tima Kurdi to re-apply for Mohammed and his family in mid-October, as the government was no longer asking for difficult-to-obtain United Nations documents. It was in Frankfurt that he first met his five-month-old son, Sherwan, who was alert and awake for his arrival in Canada. “I am happy, very happy”, Mohammad was quoted telling reporters at the city’s main airport by the ABC. “We nearly lost hope, thank you to the Canadian government and the Canadian people for making this happen”. “That’s why”, she says, explaining her advocacy work.
Family members of Syrian boy Alan Kurdi, whose drowning off the coast of Turkey triggered an global outcry, are expected to arrive in Canada as refugees.
He died with his mother and five-year-old brother who, like so many Syrian refugees before and since, were driven by desperation to attempt the unsafe boat crossing to Greece.
Tima said after the tragedy she had been trying to get her other brother Abdullha to join her in Canada but he declined to come.
And although the reunion was happy, thoughts of the family that didn’t make it to this country were never far from the surface.
Her brother Shergo, 14, had to work at a sweatshop in Turkey in order to put food on the table. The Canadian government will be sponsoring the resettlement of around 15,000 refugees while groups of individual Canadians will sponsor the relocation of the rest. An aunt was stuck in Istanbul, nursing a baby, as her son & daughter worked 18-hour shifts in a sweatshop so the family might eat. The three politicians, as well as MLA Peter Fassbender, were all at the airport.
Mohammed Kurdi, his wife and children will all stay with Tima Kurdi and her family for now.
“I’m calling it Kurdi Hair Design”, says Kurdi about the salon, nestled between a children’s reading centre and an optometry clinic in a nondescript strip mall in Port Coquitlam, B.C.
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“We wish the war to end, and most of (the refugees), that’s what they want”, she said.
