Case Study: Thafer Kashak Has Lived In The United States

Thafer kashak has lived in the U.S for three months. Two of the three months Kashak worked as a sous chef in a middle eastern restaurant in Fresno. During the third month Kashak had been getting his kids and his wife settled into their new appartment. Saturday the family cooked a traditional breakfast for the people who would be participating in the fundraiser walk. The walk had been held for the Syrians who still needed help back in Syria. Funds that were raised during the walk will go to the Syrian American Medical Society Which is an organization that brings medical care to Syrian refugees and other “displaced” people in Syrian. The Kashak family was among 10,000 refugees who fled the Syrian war. Aimee Abu-Shamsieh and Central Valley Physicians for humanitarian aid said that “the pre-war population of Syria was estimated at about twenty-three million, and roughly half its inhabitants have since fled their homes to due to violence.” The Kashak family
had fled Syria in 2012 from people being shot outside of their houses and cars were being set on fire. The neighborhood they onced lived in was peace and quiet now it is full of sorrow and violence.
Kashak family ended up in a refugee camp in bad conditions on the border of Syria and Jordan. A family in a nearby city came and tried to claim the Kashak family but guards didn’t let the family leave because of a lack of paperwork. Since guards wouldn’t let the family leave they had to try to escape the camp. After they escaped, the family had went to Jordan but Syrian refugees were not allowed to work at first so then Kashak had to bake sweets illegally. Later after they had escaped United Nations officials came up to the him if he would like to go live in the U.S.A. Kashak had really wanted his children to have a better education and have more opportunities so he accepted the offer. The interview and background check took up to twenty months for the family to be approved to go into the States. The white house made an announcement last week that the U.S will accept more refugees from countries throughout the world.
Rev. Tim Kutzmark says “Many members of our church are concerned that such a small amount of Syrian refugees are allowed to enter this country compared to ,for instance, Germany. Although the Kashak family had moved to the U.S they will never forget about the violence and horror that they saw back in Syria.