With his accounting degree and ease in English, he has rapidly picked up several jobs, including helping other Syrians settle in Ottawa. Alaa Al Olaby, 29, came to Canada only a few months ago through a private sponsorship group. The translator was a Syrian refugee himself. “I’m willing to do anything, in any field,” he said through a translator. Ismail Mohammed, 31, who worked as a painter in Syria, said he expects it will take a great deal of time to land a job because he speaks very little English, yet. “When you tell people that there will be employers there, there is an expectation that they will come away with a job,” Tsegaye said. Then there was talking to Syrians about what to expect. To line up the job fair, simultaneous translation for employers was required and child care services arranged so the women could come as well. While some of the companies present have worked with his organization before, others are specifically interested in hiring Syrians to help. The Syrian fair is unique, said Mengistab Tsegaye, executive director of World Skills. On a scorching June morning in Ottawa, they did do more than just sit.ĭespite fasting for the Muslim holiday of Ramadan, the men were among 250 newly-arrived Syrians registered for a job fair put on by Refugee 613 - the Ottawa organization focused on helping the 1600 Syrians who have arrived in the nation’s capital - along with another group that has worked for years helping newcomers find work. “The children are busy, they are happy,” he said. Their children are in school, making new friends and settling in before their eyes, said Mohammed al Saltan, 31, who has seven kids and an eighth on the way. “The longer I stay at home, the sicker I feel.”
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He worked as a long haul truck driver in his native city of Damascus, and has four kids now living in an east-end Ottawa apartment. “It’s getting depressing,” said Mahmoud Al Ahmad, 46, through a translator. What is at stake right now is feeling like they belong in the country they are now calling home. As five of the 15,412 government-assisted refugees resettled by the federal Liberals since November, they receive a year of income support and there’s a while yet before that money runs out.
They say the pressure is mounting, though not only because of money. OTTAWA-Between them, the three Syrian men gathered in an atrium at Ottawa’s city hall on Thursday have 16 children.