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'You are home': Canada's Justin Trudeau welcomes Syrian refugees [View all]
Source: Mashable
"You are home. Welcome home," Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told some of the 163 Syrian refugees who arrived at Toronto's Pearson airport late on Thursday night.
The families were part of the first dedicated Canadian government flight to relocate Syrian refugees from the Middle East. Dozens of Canadian volunteers were waiting for their arrivals, offering a warm welcome to make their transition to a new home halfway around the world a little easier.
The first family to enter the reception center was Kevork Jamkossian, a gynecologist from Aleppo, his wife Georgina Zires, a lab technician, and their 16-month-old daughter Madeleine.
"We really would like to thank you for all this hospitality and the warm welcome," Jamkossian told Trudeau through an interpreter. "We felt ourselves at home."
"We suffered a lot. Now, we feel as if we got out of hell and we came to paradise," Jamkossian said.
The families were part of the first dedicated Canadian government flight to relocate Syrian refugees from the Middle East. Dozens of Canadian volunteers were waiting for their arrivals, offering a warm welcome to make their transition to a new home halfway around the world a little easier.
The first family to enter the reception center was Kevork Jamkossian, a gynecologist from Aleppo, his wife Georgina Zires, a lab technician, and their 16-month-old daughter Madeleine.
"We really would like to thank you for all this hospitality and the warm welcome," Jamkossian told Trudeau through an interpreter. "We felt ourselves at home."
"We suffered a lot. Now, we feel as if we got out of hell and we came to paradise," Jamkossian said.
Read more/view video: http://mashable.com/2015/12/11/canada-syrian-refugees-justin-trudeau/#EdOkfrahJuqH
THIS, this is how it is done! This is the kind of world I want to live in.
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