Alberta company raises funds for Calgary man in Turkey helping injured siblings
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An Alberta company has started a fundraising campaign to help a Calgary man who is now in Turkey assisting injured relatives.
An Alberta company has started a fundraising campaign to help a Calgary man who is now in Turkey assisting injured relatives.
Mohammad Ajmal Nikzad left Calgary on Feb. 6 to search for his family, who live in the devastated Turkish city of Kahramanmaraş.
The seven-storey building in which his mother and three siblings lived is in ruins. Nikzad’s mother and sister were killed and his surviving sister and brother are in serious condition in hospitals in different cities.
“Right now I have to take them out of here,” he said in an interview with Global News from the Turkish city of Kayseri.
“I have to take them with me to my house in Calgary. I have to take care of them out there because I cannot leave them in this situation.”
Nikzad works as a contractor installing floors in southern Alberta. The president of A Gallery of Floors in Olds, Alta., north of Calgary, describes Nikzad as a hard worker who has been with the company for around 10 years.
“We are a tightknit bunch here. AJ has been a very important part of our company. He’s like family to all of us,” said Shaun Waite from his office in Olds.
“His wife had sent us a video of the collapsed building and we all knew at that point that this was going to be a difficult journey for AJ and we wanted to do everything we could to support him because he is part of our family,” Waite said, who started a GoFundMe campaign to help his friend.
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