gus awada

ottawa: Things are literally looking up for a group of Syrian refugees at the main building for the Ottawa Community Immigrant Services Organization OCISO . They are taking a course called working at heights, according to CTV. It's a requirement of their new job with an Ottawa company called Tangent Building Systems. Here in Ottawa, a unique program is matching employers looking for skilled workers with the workers who have the skills they need. Among the many unique aspects of this program called RAISE or Refugee and Immigrant Support to Employment, offered through the OCISO, is that the owner of Tangent Building Systems, Gus Awada, speaks Arabic himself. We have a large community that's entered in Ottawa, Awada says during a break in the course, and if we can help, they will contribute and they will integrate and it will be a win-win for everyone involved. Awada says his Lebanese parents were once immigrants themselves; that it is time to give back. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.