Iraqi refugee nurse feels welcomed at Grace Village 30 December 2020 at 19 h 19 min Reading time: 1 min
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Savio Habash spends his day resting and taking care of his children, alongside his wife, Rana Osanah, before heading off to work a night shift as a nurse at Grace Village Pavilion in Huntingville.
The 38-year-old graduated from the nursing program at Champlain College in Lennoxville in June, completing his degree in three years. He quickly passed the Ordre des infirmières et infirmiers du Québec (OIIQ) exam. And this month he passed the French-language exam.
It was a long time coming for Habash. He has only been in Quebec for six years. He immigrated to Sherbrooke in 2015, after fleeing Iraq a year earlier with his wife and three-year-old daughter. His village was taken by ISIS, a militant Islamist group, in 2014.