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RSS FeedsFrom fleeing war-torn Syria to finding a high-tech job in Canada, this refugee is `optimistic for his new life`
(The Star Canada)

 
 

24 march 2019 06:40:22

 
From fleeing war-torn Syria to finding a high-tech job in Canada, this refugee is `optimistic for his new life`
(The Star Canada)
 


As he arrives at his new office at a high-tech firm in Kitchener on Friday, Mohammed Hakmi is wowed by the lofty and playful space in the old tannery where each room is named after rappers.The warm smiles from his new Canadian colleagues at Bonfire Interactive stand in stark contrast to the hostile stares he faced in Beirut, where every day on his way to work he passed a billboard warning Syrian refugees they’re not welcome to work and shouldn’t take jobs away from Lebanese.“I feel like I’m living in a wonderful dream now and I don’t want anyone to wake me up,” said Hakmi, 26, who last week packed up his life as a refugee and landed in Kitchener as the first skilled immigrant admitted to Canada through Talent Beyond Boundaries, a Washington-based NGO that matches refugees with employers desperate to fill skill shortages.“I started following the weather conditions in Kitchener-Waterloo on a daily basis since Jan. 31 when Canada asked for my passport to stamp my immigrant visa,” he chuckles. “My luggage was filled with winter clothes.”Since its 2016 inception, Talent Beyond Boundaries has vetted and developed skill profiles for more than 10,000 refugees now in Lebanon and Jordan — 30 per cent of them with an undergraduate degree or above, and half with intermediate to full English proficiency. The talent pool includes people from 200 professions, the majority with a background in engineering, health care, IT, teaching, accounting and university education.To date, seven refugees have received job offers in Canada, with Hakmi newly arrived and the rest at different stages of their immigration applications.When war broke out in Syria in 2011, Hakmi fled Homs with his parents, three sisters and brother, ending up in Beirut, where for eight years they shared a tiny two-bedroom apartment. With a bachelor’s degree in information technology, Hakmi worked illegally as a web developer and in computer ne ...


 
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