Halifax Stanfield: Abdulbaset Alnaasan and Maisoun Aljaber

halifax stanfield: They were in the first wave of the now 40,000 Syrian refugees living in Canada, according to The Chronicle Herald. The government-assisted refugees had no idea what to expect when they first stepped of that plane in the midst of winter. Abdulbaset Alnaasan, Maisoun Aljaber and their seven children arrived at Halifax Stanfield International Airport last Jan. 22. Aljaber thought they would be living in a refugee camp, like the ones in Greece and Turkey, and that her sons would be enlisted to serve in the army. We hope they will have a better life than us, Alnaasan said, referring to the seven children surrounding him in the living room. They could have never guessed that nearly a year later they'd be sitting in their spacious apartment, located just off Bayers Road, with all their children attending school. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.