Woman travels to Jordan to meet Syrian family she and company sponsored
HALIFAX — Tired of waiting for the arrival of a privately-sponsored Syrian family, a Halifax woman decided to travel to Jordan to meet them herself.
Stephanie Gillis says it’s been more than a year since the family of four was expected to arrive in Halifax, but a backlog of applications has left their arrival date unknown.
Gillis and her employer, Southwest Properties, created an internal group to help with the refugee crisis by privately sponsoring a Syrian family.
They were matched in December 2015 with a young family made up of a father with an agricultural engineering degree, a mother and two young children.