Looking on at centre is Haveen Kurdi, 16, Mohammad’s eldest daughter.
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They are being sponsored by Alan’s aunt, Tima, who has become an advocate for refugees fleeing the conflict.
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“It’s a family business”, she says of the new venture, nestled between a children’s reading centre and an optometry clinic in a nondescript strip mall.
“We are very happy, finally, this is a dream come true”, said Mohammed Kurdi.
“For the people who struggle all over the world, I just want to tell them there is a light at the end of the tunnel”.
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau came to power promising to resettle 25,000 Syrian refugees by the end of December, 2015, but the deadline has now been pushed to the end of February.
Alan Kurdi’s death sparked global outrage over the refugee crisis after images of his body appeared in September after he drowned, along with his five-year-old brother and their mother, while crossing between Turkey and Greece.
An initial application to bring the family to Canada, filed by his sister Tima Kurdi was rejected by Citizenship and Immigration Canada.
Mohammad Kurdi has been in Germany since leaving his wife and four kids seven months ago to find work. Until their flight to Canada, he had yet to even meet his youngest child, who was born after the family separated.
“A feeling I could not express, it was very emotional.”
“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.
Tima Kurdi had a message she wanted to share with other refugees in hard circumstances.
“We nearly lost hope, but thank you to the Canadian government and Canadian people who made it happen”, said Mohammad, who also thanked his sister’s family and the group that raised the money to bring them here.
Mohammed and his family likely won’t receive any government assistance, as they are being sponsored by his sister.
As of St Stephen’s day the federal website said 2,413 refugees had arrived in Canada. “Please don’t close the door in their face”.
Mohammed Kurdi, his wife and children will all stay with Tima Kurdi and her family for now. Tima Kurdi (middle), holds her nephew Sherwan Kurdi as she welcomes her brother Mohammed Kurdi (not shown), and his family at Vancouver International airport in Vancouver.
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