The Al Hussein family -- father Hatem, mother Hayat, and their children Mariam, 12, Mothana, 8, twins Nasayem, and Jawaher, 6, Dabbah, 5, Ahmad, 4, and Joumana, 7 months-- have arrived in Olds.
A contingent of refugee resettlement volunteers of Didsbury and Carstairs welcomed the family at the Calgary International Airport May 5 when they flew in from Frankfurt.
They drove to the family's Canadian home in Olds with Journana sleeping all the way after a long day.
The Al Husseins fled the civil war in Syria and spent several months in refugee camps before being taken into the Canadian program to resettle 25,000 refugees.
“They are no longer refugees, they are now immigrants to Canada,” said organizer Phil Heidebrecht.
They will live in Olds where the children will start school shortly and the parents learn the fundamentals of Canadian life with the help of the working group that has befriended them, said Heidebrecht.
"They are no longer refugees, they are now immigrants to Canada."PHIL HEIDEBRECHTREFUGEE ORGANIZER
