Rayan Zeina and Noor Zeina

Wafaa Al Safadi: Syrian refugees Wafaa Al Safadi, second from left, and her children Noor Zeina, left, 7, and Rayan Zeina, 1, attend a community gathering to welcome them in Queensland, N.S., on Saturday, according to Huffington Post Canada. It began with a visit by Sobeih, a volunteer translator and real estate broker, to the family crowded two-bedroom apartment — which was assigned through the government-assisted refugee program. Then a small Nova Scotia community 50 kilometres outside the city swung into action to provide a cedar-shingled home with a yard and a view of a beach for the six-member family. "Without this help ... I probably would have made the decision to go back to Jordan," said Zeina, as Basim Sobeih translates for him during a potluck supper held to honour the family arrival in Hubbards, N.S. The arrival of Zeina, his wife Wafaa Al Safadi and their four children is proving both a solution for a family that had a rough start in Canada and a community feeling frustrated by delays in receiving privately sponsored refugees they've raised more than $100,000 to assist. Sobeih telephoned the Bay Refugee Project in Hubbards to seek a meeting. On Saturday, 11-year-old Mohammad and 7-year-old Noor leaped off the swings in the yard, jumped into a van with their parents and drove off to St. Within days the 10-person executive assigned a furnished house originally rented for a privately sponsored family which has been delayed overseas. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.