Of course.
One of the 280 people we helped last year was a musician. That's what he did before coming here. We started working with him this year. He just released an album in Winnipeg, Manitoba. He also opened a music school. He finds other children of refugees and teaches them how to make music so they don't end up in the streets.
There are a lot of examples like that. There is also a man who was a tailor before coming here. I should mention that he came here with five children. He had a transportation debt he needed to pay back to the government. After a year, he wasn't working and he had nothing. I am sorry to say that his oldest son ended up joining a gang and is lost. He started selling drugs here and there to make money.
That man is having a hard time. He found work as a security guard. I respect what people want to do, but that isn't what he wanted to do. He just wanted to be a tailor. From the beginning, people told him that was not possible and that he would have to go back to school and things like that. He said that he didn't have enough time and that he just wanted to open a tailoring shop.
When he came to see us, we put him in touch with a Canadian tailor who became his mentor so he could see what it was like working here in Canada. After three months, he realized that he needed to learn a few things, but that he also had skills that were useful here. We helped him register his business, and now he is working.