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Making Fort McMurray Our Home is a one hour multi-cultural show that provides insight into the differences and similarities of all the cultures represented in Fort McMurray. All the cohosts hope this show will bring more understanding of eachother. Keep checking back to this website page for updates on weekly topics, pictures from the making of the show and other updates. Cohosts on this show include: Rick Kirschner, Kouame Adié, Willie Engelbrecht , Zafar Iqbal and Mary Thomas with many special guests. If you would like to share your ideas for what we should cover in our shows or give us feedback on our discussions you can email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or call 780-791-5911. Click here to listen to the latest episode of Making Fort McMurray Our Home. The opinions expressed in this show may or may not reflect the opinions of the Kaos radio staff or its supporters.
Let's find out more about the cohosts that make up the radio show Making Fort McMurray Our Home:  Mary Thomas - I am from Mumbai, India, originally a South Indian born in the state of Kerala, I have had the opportunity to travel and have lived in Tehran, Iran for two years. I am conversant in languages Hindi, Marathi, Malayalam, Farsi and Gujarati and of course English which happens to be my first language. I came to Canada on a work permit due to my husband’s occupation as reliability engineer in the oil sands. I had never dreamt of immigrating since I have family in India and feel that life is all about relationships. But slowly the divine purpose of bringing me here dawned on me and I began to see the positive side of living here. My kids got the opportunity to learn and make friends with people from every country on the globe. They excelled in whatever they did and this surely excited me. Life is more relaxed and I enjoy ample time with family. I am passionate about the arts, music, sports, hiking, volunteering and helping people who live here for years to come out of their comfort zone and experience the real life in Fort McMurray. I foresee a new culture thriving in Fort McMurray, a beautiful and vibrant melange of cultures from around the world to which all these people can come home. This show is the just the beginning of that grand image makeover for Fort McMurray, the land of oil money.  Mohammad Zafar Iqbal - I was born in Pakistan and immigrated to Canada 32 years ago, Lived in Mississauga for 30 years, Moved to Fort McMurray two years ago. Involved in developing the community from very beginning. Been part of media; radio and newspaper in Mississauga and Toronto Started a weekly newspaper (Canadian Express) and a monthly magazine (South Asian Express) in Fort Mac little over a year ago. Involved with a weekly south Asian radio show (Radio Sangeet) in Calgary. Very passionate to see different cultural groups working together with the mainstream community. Working to bring together different cultural groups in Fort McMurray. Willie Jacobus Engelbrecht - I was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Afica. I was the 11th generation to be born in South Africa. We came to Fort McMurray Alberta Canada almost 8 years ago. I started as a driver at Diversified, worked as manager for UPS. Then I worked at Waterous Power Systems and Napa. Now I run a grocery store that brings in food from 13 different countries. While working at all the places I found out that a lot of people did not like this place and always wanted to be somewhere else. This troubled me. After talking to people I found out that they do not live here but only survive here, with the hope that they will make lots of money to go back to some place they think they will be happy, but after so many years they are still here running after the golden pot at the end of the rainbow. There is an answer to this problem. Live where you are and plan to live where you go. Making this your home will help you enjoy your life to the full. It is towards developing this awareness that I joined the team at KAOs to make this show a reality. Kouame Adie - I was born in Abidjan on the Ivory Coast in West decided to be part of this show for 3 fundamentals reasons: First I believe that each community has their place in our beautiful Wood Buffalo Region, Second for me Fort McMurray is a wonderful place to work and make good money but it`s all so a nice place to live with our families and the third reason is to give a hope and promote our dream to live up here together and make Fort McMurray our home. It`s important that all of us from different cultures sit together and share our experiences and taking it easy. This show will stimulate our hope to bring together all strengths and consolidate peace in our region. My goal is to maximize my help for newcomers up here by offering them the resources they will need to make our town their home. I`m passionate to give the support they need and close the gap of their demand as much as I can.
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