Asraa Asile El-Darahali

Zaatari: Both dentists, the sisters worked in Zaatari for several weeks before Christmas, tending to the dental needs of refugees fleeing Syria five-year-old civil war in the camp medical centre, according to The Chronicle Herald. At first glance, Zaatari seems like another planet compared to the El-Darahali sisters’ comfortable dental clinic inside the Bedford Place Mall. For Dalhousie grads Asraa and Asile El-Darahali, the first thing they recall of Zaatari dusty streets is young children on bikes pushing wheelbarrows among the rows of refugee huts, eking out a living for their families as best they can. But take a closer look, and Syrian refugees’ children endure the same problems that many young Nova Scotians do: tooth abscesses, chronic pain, inadequate medical care, poverty, and crime. So my next mission I hope is in Canada to do a dental mission right here at home, said Asraa. I would really love to do a dental mission in Canada because there are Aboriginal communities in reserves that don’t have the quality of care that we do here. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.