Selina Prevost and Teddy Bears

Canadian flag patches: She also been sewing new clothes for teddy bears, with Canadian flag patches and "Welcome to Canada" tags stitched on them, according to Huffington Post Canada. The greeting is written in both English and Arabic. Selina Prevost has been wiping the makeup from the dolls and swapping their usual outfits for hand-stitched dresses that look similar to those commonly worn by Syrian women. Prevost, who has a five-year-old son and a seven-year-old daughter, said she thinks a doll or a teddy would be a perfect welcome gift for the children arriving in B.C. by the end of February 2016. "I've been seeing pictures of refugees just like everyone else," she told The Huffington Post B.C. on Wednesday. "It looks like these families have the clothes on their backs and that it... They've got nothing." "When something like a refugee crisis happens, and these people are coming to your own hometown, you realize it not something that a world away," the Coquitlam mom continued. "And you have to think, when you look back on it, what am I going to tell my kids I did to help " Slide the arrow left and right to see the dolls before and after Prevost function Prevost explained that a series of images by photographer Magnus Wennman, called "Where The Children Sleep," got her thinking about how she could help incoming families. A photo of two-year-old Fara, included in photographer Magnus Wennman "Where The Children Sleep" series. "There was one story where one of the little children said they were afraid of their pillow," Prevost recalled. "And I thought, they'll be coming here to a brand new place, and they'll still be scared. The Syrian refugee children captured in Wennman photos sleeping in makeshift camps and on the ground outdoors said they're afraid to sleep at night because of the violence they had seen during the civil war. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.