Hatami hopes his participation in the Boston Marathon will help raise awareness about the travel ban, which he's hopeful will end soon. "It's not going to be easy, it takes time, but it will happen," he told CBC Toronto. "I'm hoping this campaign helps people to talk about the travel ban and at some point hopefully the money we raise and other work that NGOs are doing [will] help to remove the travel ban." (James Morrison/CBC)Sellers explained that the fundraising was not specifically to help Hatami, but rather to help other people who have "bigger problems" because of the ban. It's on-going, so we wanted to use Soroush's story as our inspiration to denounce the policy more widely," Sellers told CBC Toronto.

Source: CBC News March 18, 2018 20:15 UTC