Community Members: Families and Al Jasems

community members: It began with the arrival in October 2015 of the Al Jasem family, an enormous clan of 14 parents, a grandmother, 11 kids, including two sets of twins, according to Metro News. It quickly snowballed into a homegrown resettlement project with community members stepping forward to rescue two other families related to the Al Jasems who arrived in February. Twelve months later, residents of the picturesque rural county near Belleville say the effort, which will eventually see seven families from war-torn Syria settled in and around the area, has been filled with ups and downs but one that achieved the unexpected goal of bringing the whole community together. And now they re awaiting the arrival of four other families they ve sponsored since then. It been a real community-building experience, said Carlyn Moulton, who owns an art gallery in the village of Bloomfield and was inspired to act after witnessing the magnitude of the refugee crisis during a visit to Europe in the summer of 2015. Courtesy carlyn moulton Twins Bachar and Majid Al Jasem are settling in well to their new home in Prince Edward County. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.