Success Story: Chocolate Business and Community Members

success story: The Hadhad family went on to donate to the Fort McMurray wildfire relief effort, raised from their new chocolate business, according to CBC. Since then, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has told their success story in front of the United Nations. "It quite incredible to see how Canadians are coming together to bring in Syrian refugees," U.N. filmmaker Annie Sakkab told Radio-Canada on Sunday. "The whole effort of communities coming together to help people they hardly know — they probably don't know anything about the culture — it changing perceptions for Canadians." Small town, big heart: How the crisis in Syria has changed Antigonish United Nations filmmaker Annie Sakkab says she found small communities embrace refugees warmly. Community members in Antigonish, N.S., raised enough money to sponsor five families fleeing the war in Syria. Cross-Canada film tour The film series will highlight a different Canadian small town weekly from mid-November to January, filmmaker Leyland Cecco said. I am so grateful,' says Syrian refugee of new Nova Scotia life March participants formed a peace sign. The goal "is to show what refugee settlement could look like in a positive way," he said. "A lot of the focus on refugee resettlement has been in Vancouver, Montreal, and we were really curious for this series to see what it was like for Syrians to end up in smaller towns," Cecco said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.