EBlast Updates 2023 

My name is Adeel, and I would like to tell you about my family.

My Mom (Aisha) and Dad (Abbas) have eight children - five boys and three girls. In 2012 - it became too difficult to live and work in Syria. Some family members fled to Turkiye late in 2012 and early 2013. Everyone had escaped to Turkiye in 2013. Our family home, a small farm near Aleppo, was bombed and destroyed. I, and my four brothers worked odd jobs for cash to support our whole family in Gaziantep, from 2012 to 2016.

I was accepted by the UN in 2016 as a refugee to come to Canada with my wife and children. We arrived with $5 CDN in my pocket and have been successful newcomers - myself and my children are now Canadian citizens. The rest of my family continued to live in an apartment in Gaziantep as Syrian refugees in Turkiye with no reasonable future.

In 2019, we began the process to reunite my entire family in Canada, which we call Syrian Family Reunification (SFR). Three brothers came to Canada with their own families in April 2022 - with a lot of help from many kind Canadians, like you. All the others remain as refugees in Turkiye. We all wish to be reunited in Canada and complete our SFR. 

The recent earthquakes in Turkiye destroyed their 'refugee' home in Gaziantep. My thirteen remaining family members are now living in their own tents in a field with little or no government/international assistance - because they are Syrians, unwanted refugees in a country that does not want them.

Please help us (four brothers) bring our parents, brother and sisters and their families (eight adults and five children) to Canada. They are at risk, in survival mode, and have no future where they are. Thank you. Sincerely, Adeel - See you on Canada Day!