Arts Connection and Syrian Refugees

B.C. Anas Shaib: Shirley and organizers for the event were left scrambling Wednesday morning, when the 14 children they expected turned into 22, according to CBC. Syrian refugees in B.C. still looking for permanent homes Syrian refugees pose challenges for B.C. schools How to help Syrian refugees coming to B.C. Anas Shaib came to the session with his eight and nine-year-old children. The session at the Arts Connection, a business in Steveston, was a welcome break from daily life in a nearby hotel, where Syrian families are staying as they work toward getting properly settled in Canada. "I imagined what it would be like for the parents and staff to handle children staying in a hotel all day long for a several weeks," said Arts Connection CEO Linda Shirley, adding that it must get pretty boring. He said, through an interpreter that it had been four years since his family fled their home in Syria. Shaib said he knew nothing of the current state of his Syrian home but assumed it was pretty rough. "I think from this experience, I feel the impression that I get is the future that I came for, the future of my children seems to be a prosperous one," Shaib said. For two years they lived in a rented house in Turkey before making their way to British Columbia. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.