Hope Mission helps resettle refugee family [Video]

A family of Ukrainian refugees was reunited in Edmonton ahead of the holiday season, with some help from a local social agency.

The Hope Mission helped Andrew Obasuyi and his wife Hanna Filiwpova to settle in the capital city with their children after seven months spent apart.

“Hope mission gave me hope to see my family again,” Obasuyi said. “I was short of words.

“I don’t even know how to say thank you.”

The couple fled Ukraine earlier this year due to the war. It was the second time Obasuyi was forced to flee his home.

Obasuyi left Nigeria more than 20 years ago as a refugee, moving to Ukraine and making a life there.

He got married, started a business and had children. However, the ongoing war in the country forced his family to pack up and leave.

They first went to Germany, but decided to try and settle in Canada. Obasuyi went first, as there were difficulties …