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Syrian Refugees Find Welcoming Community at VIU Cowichan
January 19, 2018
NANAIMO, British Columbia, Jan. 19 -- Vancouver Island University issued the following news:

A Syrian couple who spent four years living at a residential complex for refugees in northern Iraq are finding a welcoming new community at Vancouver Island University's (VIU's) Cowichan Campus.

Baraa Mohammed and Fanar Sheikh Zein, Kurdish Syrians from Qamishli, in the northern part of the country, came to Canada looking for a better life for their daughter, Ariana, w . . .

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