Jersey City: Gareb and Fadila Maamo

jersey city: Fadila Maamo and her husband, Moustafa Gareb, according to CBC. Gareb helped his family flee Syria in 2013, but he died of cancer before they reached the U.S. in 2016. Her husband, Moustafa Gareb, started the process, but never lived to see his wife and three of his children set foot on American soil. "His main worry was his children," she said through an interpreter. "It was very hard for us emotionally." Gareb died of cancer before the family completed the difficult journey taken by relatively few refugees from Syria to the United States. They left Aleppo in 2013, two years after the start of the Syrian civil war. They know they are the lucky ones. They fled to Turkey, and arrived in Jersey City a month ago, with the help of Christian aid group Church World Service. "Life in America is beautiful, but it hard for us as refugees, because we don't know everything here, we have to learn everything from the beginning," said Fayza Gareb, 21, the eldest daughter. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.