March 9th, 2021 comments
Syrian-Canadian Bayan Khatib, executive director of the Syrian Canadian Foundation looks back at the progress made by HER Startup, a refugee women entrepreneurship program, since its launch in 2020.
Over a year ago, the Syrian Canadian Foundation (SCF) partnered with Jumpstart Refugee Talent to launch HER Startup, a first-of-its-kind refugee women entrepreneurship program to carve pathways for refugee women with an entrepreneurial drive. Starting from signing on the primary funder, Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC), the program has come a long way. As opposed to a one-size-fits-all approach, the program has advocated for a customized service for refugee women to address their unique socio-economic challenges and barriers.
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Kotada Al Hariri and his wife, Nour, moved to the city in September 2017. Theyâd spent the six years since war broke out in their home country of Syria trying to get to a safe place, somewhere they could call home.
But their children â Ghith, 5; Mohammed, 4; and Jasmine, who celebrated her second birthday on Friday â love North Bayâs cold and snow.
âThey like to go outside and toboggan,â Kotada says. âThey have taken to winter.â
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