{"id":26129,"date":"2017-01-24T11:32:36","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T16:32:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huntsville.dopperonline.ca\/?p=26129"},"modified":"2017-01-26T11:43:16","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T16:43:16","slug":"huntsvilles-first-syrian-refugee-family-loving-new-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/huntsvilles-first-syrian-refugee-family-loving-new-community\/","title":{"rendered":"After five months, Huntsville&#8217;s first Syrian refugee family is loving their new community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer, a family of Syrian refugees \u2013 the Malems \u2013 arrived in Huntsville with little fanfare. Sponsored by the St. Mary\u2019s parish, they quietly went about learning about the new place they were to call home.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n<p>Dad Ghazwan, mom Buchra, Asad (a boy, 18) and Rama (a girl, 14) arrived on August 24, 2016. They were preceeded by Ghazwan\u2019s brother, Firas, who arrived in April and has since moved on to Mississauga, but the rest of the Malems are thrilled to be staying in Huntsville and hope to remain here.<\/p>\n<p>Both children are in school \u2013 Asad in grade 12 at St. Dominic\u2019s in Bracebridge to get the qualifications needed to head to college and Rama in grade eight at St. Mary\u2019s in Huntsville \u2013 while Buchra is improving her English thanks to volunteer ESL teachers. Ghazwan is anxious to find a job, the success of which will ultimately determine if the family can stay here. In the meantime, he\u2019s been helping as a translator for Huntsville\u2019s newest Syrian refugee family.<\/p>\n<p>The Malems came from Aleppo, Syria\u2019s war-torn capital, by way of Beirut, Lebanon. They were able to leave their home country four years ago to relative stability in Beirut, but even that wasn\u2019t without its difficulties. Buchra\u2019s mother died in Aleppo after the family left and she was unable to return. And the family\u2019s temporary visas expired before their Canadian papers came through \u2013 had they been discovered, they might very well have been sent back to a much worse Aleppo than the one they had left.<\/p>\n<p>But now, they are thrilled to be in Huntsville where they can go out without fear for their safety.<\/p>\n<p>They are embracing new-to-them Canadian traditions and activities. The family had 154 costumed children arrive at their door Halloween night and delighted in seeing them dressed up. They ate their first turkey at Thanksgiving. And at Christmas they decorated a tree. They\u2019ve been to Hidden Valley Highlands Ski Area to watch the skiers and the kids are eager to take up the sport.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_26130\" style=\"width: 398px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-26130\" class=\" wp-image-26130\" src=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2017\/01\/Malem-family-and-friends.jpg\" alt=\"The Malem family and friends\" width=\"388\" height=\"388\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2017\/01\/Malem-family-and-friends-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2017\/01\/Malem-family-and-friends-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2017\/01\/Malem-family-and-friends-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2017\/01\/Malem-family-and-friends.jpg 1404w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 388px) 100vw, 388px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-26130\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Malems with sponsors and volunteers Mary Ray Ward (front left), Ted Dodds (centre back) and Michelle and George Haskin (back right). (supplied photo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Mary Ray Ward, one of the volunteers helping the Malems settle in to their new life, says the parish community has been extremely generous in helping to sponsor the family, an initiative that was spearheaded by the church\u2019s pastor, Father John Rathinaswamy, who created a sponsorship committee composed of parishioners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c(The response) was remarkable, actually,\u201d says Ted Dodds, the committee co-chair. \u201cWe got a late start &#8211; we were under the umbrella of the Diocese of Peterborough and they had already put in firm dates for the sponsorship money \u2013 and we had to raise at least $24,000 in two weeks from our 150 families. Really it was the generosity of the parishioners that made it possible to come together so quickly.\u201d Members of the parish even donated two cars for the family.<\/p>\n<p>Dodds notes that the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peterborough has been sponsoring families for more than 10 years and were well organized in helping sponsor groups select a family. However, when the committee realized that the family of five they had chosen weren\u2019t a family that all lived together, the parish raised additional funds to support Firas separate from the rest of the Malems.<\/p>\n<p>When Ghazwan, Buchra, Asad and Rama arrived in August, they weren\u2019t just greeted by volunteers \u2013 some of their friends and family who have already settled in Canada met them as well. \u201cAt the rental house we had set up for them, they had a bit of a party that lasted all weekend,\u201d says Dodds. \u201cSome of the parishioners billeted a few of their relatives so they could stay a while and catch up. It had been many years since they&#8217;d seen each other. It was a very joyous occasion for them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Their family and friends already living in Canada are in Mississauga and live in high rises, so that\u2019s what the Malems likely expected to find. They were quite surprised, says Dodds, to discover that the sponsor group had gone to so much trouble to renovate and furnish a house for them.<\/p>\n<p>Dodds says one of the best comments he heard came from Ghazwan\u2019s sister-in-law, who wondered when the family would be able to move to Mississauga, but after seeing the arrangements made here for them joked that she should have asked if the committee would sponsor Syrian families from Mississauga.<\/p>\n<p>While the family is settling in well, Dodds says there have been some frustrations from his perspective when it comes to some of the industries and government agencies that aren\u2019t as prepared as they could be for the influx of Syrian refugees to Canada. In particular, he noted an insurance industry that doesn\u2019t recognize driving records or past insurance history from Syria, making refugees start from scratch with high insurance rates, or post-secondary institutions that don\u2019t recognize equivalencies.<\/p>\n<p>And Dodds hopes that the community will step forward with employment options. \u201cSometimes people know of situations where there are temporary jobs. (The Malems) don\u2019t have many connections here yet. They are improving on their English daily, and it was already quite good. Being employed, even temporarily, can give that little shot of positivity and when employers see how hard they work it could lead to other things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Photos supplied by Mary Ray Ward<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>UPDATE January 26, 2017: In response to reader questions about making donations to support the Malem family, we asked for and received this information from the St. Mary&#8217;s committee: <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong><em>If they would like to contact us directly, email StMarysRefugeeSC@gmail.com. Tax receiptable financial donations can be issued to St. Mary of the Assumption Church and mailed to or dropped by the church office: St.Mary of the Assumption Church, P.O.Box 5513, 12 Centre Street, Huntsville ON, P1H 2K8. Cheques must note Refugee Donation in the memo line of the cheque in order for the funds to be passed on for the Malem family sponsorship efforts.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler! Sign up for our free, twice-weekly newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/dont-miss-out-on-doppler\/\"><u>here<\/u>.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45657\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last summer, a family of Syrian refugees \u2013 the Malems \u2013 arrived in Huntsville with little fanfare. 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