Project Toronto Welcomes

Zakaria just opened his restaurant in Scarborough!!

The Canadianization of the Al Mokdads is progressing nicely. Last Halloween they had only been here 2 months and had no idea what was going on. Aya wanted to be a Princess. This year, she was Dead Barbie. Mission accomplished.

A good friend of Louai’s in Jordan needs emergency surgery, can you help?

Syria Film Festival SYFF 2017 Trailer - Toronto - Ted Rogers Hotdocs Theatre - Nov 10-12th Buy your tickets online @ http://syff.ca/syff2017/ Wake up and Smel...l the Jasmine! The Syria Film Festival returns this year with a new home (Hot Docs Ted Rogers Cinema) and a new program of striking and powerful films. Our three-day festival this year focuses on the lives of Syrians under siege, whether in Syria itself or in exile throughout the world. Trailer by Serene Ala Music by Kaan Wafi See more

Amnesty International's campaign to promote refugee sponsorship is in full swing... https://www.amnesty.org///community-sponsorship-in-canada/

Playing Go Fish with Aya

From Amnesty International's recent visit to Toronto where they interviewed a range of sponsors and newcomers including us! This is being used to promote sponsorship in other countries. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nsPI0ir5no&app=desktop

Happy Anniversary to the Al Mokdad family, it's been quite a year!

Celebrating Eid!

Seamus O'Regan wants Canadians to remember the immigrants of today aren't much different from the thousands of Irish who came in 1847.

This is a very disturbing read

Dear friends , everyday I spend here in Canada I become more sure that evil will never win this battle on this planet, and for me this is very clear thing since... I see and live with people who carry such a huge kindness and human feelings deep in their souls like you and all the people who welcomed us at their country. no doubt that what happened was a very brutal action and does not belong to people with souls like yours, that is why it is not your fault or any of the kind people who I know here. what we should do here is that we have to point our fingers to those people who work hard to increase the hate feelings against people who are different from them, we should all stand together and keep standing to prove that we can live together, build great life together and fight against all kind of extremism together. we should not be tired, or be disappointed or even lose hope that we can give those extremist a practical example about they should live their lives, life full of love, respect and equality. let us stay together united to face all kind of evil in this planet. and let us our philosophy here to be; it is not a matter if we could not change the world, but it matters if we stop trying See more