Ontario residents David McNab and his wife Kristy Hiltz are sponsoring a Syrian refugee family and took video of the children going sledding for the first time. The result is unadulterated, pure joy!
x YouTube VideoMcNab is a police constable with the Ontario Police Department:
Hiltz and her husband are co-sponsors of the family. Like many Canadians, they were horrified to see the photo of the young Syrian boy, Alan Kurdi, washed up on a beach in Greece, they told Maclean’s.
They sponsored a family of four — a mother and her three children, Ansam,13, Ibrahim,10 and Dalya, who is 9.
The children have neither been to school, nor seen a doctor or dentist in almost two years. These are all firsts that the children have experienced since arriving on Dec. 30.
Once again, our Northern neighbors are giving us an example of how to properly welcome refugees from war-torn nations into their communities.