The organization was incorporated as a not-for-profit organization on August 27, 2018 and our certificate number is: 1096457-3. Since its official establishment in 2013 HFNLA has organized many meetings and home-based events to provide a forum to exchange cultural and social issues between Canadians and Arabs, to know and identify the cultural and social differences between the two cultures and to bridge those gaps and live side by side with eventual integration into Canadian society. Over the past 3 years the number of refugees has been increasing phenomenally with a significant number of Arabic speaking people, mostly from Iraq and Syria, arriving in Canada.