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Check out the new short Peace by Chocolate documentary on BBC here!
The documentary highlights the tremendous support the family received from many residents of the community where they settled.
In early 2017 CBC’s Carolyn Ray reported that the business now employs 10 people.
This documentary was premiered on October 22nd, 2016 at the Antigonish International Film Festival.
“This is the message . . . if you offer the refugees a welcoming arm, kindness and support, they can succeed faster.” Said Tareq Hadhad to The Chronicle Herald
Nova Scotia’s famous Syrian chocolatier was stopped from entering the U.S. because of a lack of documents Monday. But he plans to return as soon as he has the right paperwork.
Hadhad, 24, a refugee who settled with his family in Antigonish and opened a chocolate factory in 2015, was turned back by American custom agents who said he didn’t have the right paperwork with him as he tried to embark on a three-day, peace-promoting tour of Vermont.
ANTIGONISH, N.S. – A year ago, members of the Hadhad family were living as refugees after fleeing the war in Syria — but now they’re running a booming chocolate business in Nova Scotia with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau telling their story at the United Nations
There was a tearful reunion at the Halifax airport Thursday night as Antigonish's first Syrian family arrived after two days of travel.
The Hadhad family was greeted first by their son, Tareq, who arrived three weeks earlier.
