Razia’s Journey

Razia, a former Sojourn House resident

Razia’s family was scattered by war in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan — separated by a warlord’s advance and by borders that turned a family into four separate cases.

After years of separation, the family was reunited in Toronto in February 2014.

That same year, they were accepted as convention refugees — the official end of a journey that began with flight and ended with the rarest thing in displacement: being together again.

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