Relatives of the drowned three-year-old Syrian boy who became the face of the Syrian refugee crisis are set to touch down in Vancouver tomorrow morning.
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Mohammed Kurdi along with his wife and children are due to arrive at YVR at 11:30 am, where they will be met by his sister Tima who lives in Coquitlam.
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Tima Kurdi told CTV news channel that while the tragedy involving her nephew has been painful for the entire family, she hoped it served as a reminder to the world of the plight of refugees fleeing violence.
Citizenship and Immigration Canada later asked Tima Kurdi to re-apply for her brother and his family in mid-October.
“We are very happy, finally, this is a dream come true”, said Mohammed Kurdi.
Darryl Dyck/AP Mohammed Kurdi (third from right), his wife (right) and their children walk with his sister Tima Kurdi (center) as they arrive in Canada as refugees at Vancouver International Airport on Monday.
The reunion comes at the end of a hard year for the family. Tima Kurdi wore a necklace bearing photographs of Alan and Ghalib while two of their cousins recalled their memory in their first words to the Canadian public.
The Kurdi family had fled from their hometown of Kobane in Syria, and were trying to leave Turkey to go to Canada.
“I’m happy! Very happy!” he said in English to a crowd of reporters. She had hoped to sponsor Alan and his family next.
On Monday, he said he was grateful to the Canadian government that he did not have to work any more.
The national project undertaken by the Liberal government has meant that thousands of families like the Kurdis will be resettling in Canada over the coming years. His youngest son was born in July – he did not meet his newest child until this past weekend in Frankfurt, before leaving for Vancouver. “Keep walking until you find that light”. “They’re like every single one of us in the West”, Kurdi says, her fingers playing anxiously with the tissue she holds in her lap.
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“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. “With the help of my brothers and the family, we’ll all get them on their feet and show them around”. We’d like to hear from you about this or any other stories you think we should know about. She travelled to Belgium, Germany and Turkey, helping give a voice to those displaced by the war in Syria.
