Within months of arriving, the Hadhad's resurrected their chocolate business - with a meaningful new name - and now they're creating happiness AND jobs !
The full story at: http://www.thesoulbooth.com/the-soul-booth-podcast/2017/7/23/tareq-hadhad-a-long-way-from-damascus
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“We didn’t come here to take anybody’s job,” Hadhad said. “We’ve just come here to create jobs and to contribute to the community of Antigonish that really helped us since the beginning.”
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We Are Hiring!
The Hadhad family will be hiring full-time staff positions for Peace by chocolate.
Positions will start in early August, 2017.
Please forward a cover letter and resume by Friday, July 28th to our official email: feedback@peacebychocolate.ca
Or drop off your cover letter at:
Peace by Chocolate main store
32 Bay street Antigonish, NS.
Successful applicants only will be contacted for an interview.
CNN features Peace by Chocolate saying:
"In Canada, one of the country's most talked-about -- and sought-after -- sweets companies is the product of a family's enormous loss.
Assam Hadhad launched Peace by Chocolate out of his kitchen in his adopted home of Antogonish in Nova Scotia after a missile struck his factory in Syria and his family finally decided to flee the danger and the death of the civil war. His family has now shared its story of displacement and new beginnings with audiences ranging from TED participants to the Canadian prime minister. As Assam's son Tareq, now studying in Canada after having been a medical student in Syria, says, "maybe we started from zero, but we brought our skills with us."
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"Love brings more love" ..
Many thanks to CBC News for the nice live interview with #PeacebyChocolate founder. Such an honor for our family to be featured on the National Canadian level celebrating the 150th birthday and pushing towards peace and reconciliation.
Proud to have been mentioned at the "We Are The Change series"! Check out Peace by Chocolate part of national and international change-making
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-Peace by Chocolate- online store is running, selling assorted boxes of chocolates, molded into Middle Eastern symbols such as the Damascus rose, Egyptian pyramids, and patterns resembling Syrian architecture. Each piece is handmade with fair trade dark, white, or milk chocolate, as well as local organic honey, pure juices, nuts, fruits, and spices.
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On choosing a .CA
By choosing a .CA domain name, Hadhad says, he knew his website would be trusted and respected by his customers all around the world.
Even though Hadhad plans on expanding his business internationally, he says that the .CA will forever remain his domain of choice to show the world that Peace by Chocolate is proudly Canadian.
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