Indoor Sports Facility and Frid St.

Syrian refugees: This is everything." A group of 45 Syrian refugees spent Wednesday morning playing at Soccer World after the indoor sports facility at 104 Frid St. donated time so the children living in a Hamilton hotel could run free, according to Hamilton Spectator. Between soccer games, four dads talked about their first impressions of Canada. "It a very nice country," said 28-year-old Rafaet Al-Shaad. "There is calmness and peace." Peace is the word all four use to describe their new home. "I wanted to find peace and now I've found peace," said 43-year-old Khaled Hamada. It a world away from the refugee camp in Lebanon the family of eight called home until two weeks ago. "It a big difference," he said, pointing out his six sons aged six months to 12 years. "They are happy. All four families were in slightly different situations, but with one thing in common — no hope for the future if they stayed where they were living. In the Lebanon refugee camp, Al-Saeed made $20 a day as a builder. "There was not always work," said the 40-year-old. "Sometimes it was only two days a week." The other two families both lived in homes in Jordan, but had to spend all of their meagre earnings on rent. "There was no money," said 34-year-old Mohammed Al-Hawari. Al-Shaad spent one-and-a-half years housed in nothing but a tin shack in a refugee camp in Jordan with his wife and four children, aged six months to five years. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.