Support Rania in returning her abducted daughters to Canada

Please help me in my harrowing story of my daughters' abduction to Jordan from Canada and my ongoing brave attempt to bring them back home. I hope people will help me, especially for parents who know the length to which they'll go to bring their stolen children home.

This summer, my husband suggested I go to Jordan with our daughters for a short visit before school starts. I agreed to travel with the girls to Amman, capital of Jordan for three weeks to see my sick mother in August 2024. A few weeks back, he had signed an application to renew our Canadian passports before travelling to Montreal for our flight. Our Canadian passports didn’t come in time so we used our Jordanian passports. He, then promised me he would take us back home after our visit. He showed us the return reservation tickets for Ottawa, Canada. I sincerely believed him, just to find out that it all meant nothing. He showed up unannounced in Jordan and told us that we weren’t coming back home to Canada. It didn’t occur to me he would abduct us, this way, in Jordan. We were and still are devastated!

In Jordan, after he suddenly arrived during what was supposed to be our summer vacation, he claimed he was residing in Jordan. Even himself, he was living in Ottawa, Canada. All of us never came to Jordan in 17 years except twice for short visits. Now, he is using a gap in the law in Jordan claiming he has the right to force them (the girls) for education here against their own will and mine and that mothers have no rights in this.

I am still fighting in courts now, trying to get the girls back to their school in Ottawa and to our matrimonial home that we lived in for over 13 years. So far, we’ve resided in Canada for a total of over 17 years.

I need financial help to keep my fight in courts to lift the travel ban he put on them and to fight against trying to force them for schooling in Jordan against their will and wish. They are still registered in their school in Ottawa, Canada. He even put a court case against me and his own innocent daughter in Jordan for a snapchat message, fighting in courts needs financial help and strength before their return to Canada, hopefully sooner than later.

Please, help me come back with my children to Canada. Children coming out of similar experience may suffer, let me save them as fast as I can by sharing my story and support as I care very much about their future! So far, they are courageously dealing with all the emotional stress they’re going through right now. We will rebuild our lives once we are back. Then, we will tell our story to help others who might endure similar child abduction.

Rania Rawashdeh, a devoted and loving mother