 for the possibility of having to move. It's our home and we don't want to move from here. I'm from Africa, and it's a great place to live. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, I've been able to communicate with the public in a way that I don't have to worry about. I've been able to communicate with the public in a way that I don't have to worry about. I came back in contact with the UN because I wanted to become an entrepreneur. I wanted to learn how to work. I wanted to do something. At first, we had to pay taxes. And then, we had to pay taxes. We only received an economic benefit, giving us better quality of life. The most gratifying thing that we've really received. This community hall has been helping people to acquire skills so that they will be self-reliant. There's some that learn how to weave. Now, I have a friend. She is sewing clothes for us. Indeed, this clothes too is the one that suits and he lent the thread from here. As an immigrant, you want to live in a place that makes you comfortable and gives you the freedom to live. Since its establishment, IOM has evolved into the leading international organization dedicated to promoting safe, orderly and regular migration, assisting those most vulnerable and harnessing the potential of human mobility. IOM's work covers fields such as return and reintegration, labor migration, climate change, migration health, border management, data and research, crisis response and migration policy. The organization supports its member states to respond to the needs of migrants and improve migration governance amid conflict, political upheaval, natural disasters and economic crises. In 2016, IOM joined the United Nations as a related agency, providing migrants with a much-needed voice on the global stage. IOM is there to guarantee the safety, well-being and dignity of people on the move, advocating for their human rights to be respected at all times. As nations develop new strategies to manage migration, IOM's dedicated staff are providing pragmatic policy recommendations and operational support for emergency and non-emergency situations in more than 100 countries. As IOM marks seven decades of service, a particular focus of its work is to mitigate the socioeconomic impacts of COVID-19 and harness the energy and entrepreneurial spirit of migrants to reimagine human mobility. Looking into the future, IOM is committed to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and to achieving the objectives set by the Global Compact for Migration to reduce inequalities and ensure that no one is left behind. Lots of people in my school were Syrian and knew how to speak Arabic, so they came to me and were like, here, I'll show you around and everything. I had lots of, lots of friends because when I first came to Canada, I'm like, I'm different. Now I fit in.