Lots of news! Nour, the youngest daughter in our family, got engaged to Mohamad. He is also a Syrian refugee and UNHCR approved, so after conferring and discussing, we have decided to sponsor him as well. Really, it was a clear decision: we want to support the family, and not sponsoring him would clearly create divisions. Would Nour come and try to sponsor her soon-to-be husband? Would she stay behind in Jordan? None of those choices would be the kind of positive outcome we’re hoping for, and thanks to the generosity of NUUC and DawaNet, we have the money to support them all. So our family of five is a family of six, with Mohamad’s application to be filled out and sent off really soon.
The application for the family of five has been submitted and approved by the CUC, and by the Canadian Government, and the family has had their medical exams in Jordan, so things are moving very fast. The time before arrival may be down to weeks by now- I would guess under a month.
Are we prepared? Not badly.We have a place for the family to stay (Yay, Susan and Bruce!), and we had a wonderful meeting yesterday at NUUC with support from Bayan and Umar and other members of Dawanet. We’re learning appropriate social guidelines. (Vegetarian food is considered lower class, to my horror) and we have a tremendously strong network in place of volunteers and people helping. There will be things we hadn’t thought of, because that’s how life works, but I’m feeling happy and confident as we head into our first meeting with the family.
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