10 Somali orphans rescued from Saudi Arabia by Winnipeg refugee group

10 Somali orphans rescued from Saudi Arabia by Winnipeg refugee group

by Carol Sanders at CBC

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/Saudi-orphans-365325661.html

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An elaborate humanitarian mission to rescue 10 at-risk Somali orphans from Saudi Arabia and bring them to Canada ended successfully Thursday night at Richardson International Airport.

"I’m so happy," said oldest brother Fathi Ismail, 17, who in October 2014 crossed into Canada alone and on foot at Emerson and walked to Winnipeg. The Grade 12 student, who has a physics test Friday, has been trying to get the siblings he left behind ever since.

On Thursday evening, they arrived into the welcoming arms of Fathi, the children’s sponsors at Hospitality House Refugee Ministry and dozens of well-wishers.

"It’s a helluva story," said retired newspaperman and Hospitality House executive director Tom Denton. For the charity that has privately sponsored hundreds of refugees over the years, this is its most complicated and suspenseful "caper" to date, he said.



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