A Glasgow mother has been reunited with her family after a decade apart.
Kaltouma Ibrahim was separated from her husband and two children when they were forced to flee war-torn Sudan.
The Church of Scotland led a campaign to help the family be together again by assisting in securing permission for her husband, Hassan, and children, Nasir, 19, and Awadia, 16, to come to the UK.
The happy ending brings to a close a deeply distressing and harrowing chapter in the family's story as Kaltouma and her husband lost three children due to the conflict in Sudan.
Kaltouma, 51, said: "I am very happy to have been finally reunited with my family after so many years apart and they are now safe living with me in Glasgow.
"I am very grateful and thankful to all the people who have helped me in so many ways to make this happen and we can finally start a new chapter in our lives."
Speaking on behalf of herself and her brother, Awadia said: "We are both very happy to be reunited with our mother and be together again after so many years.
"We feel very safe in Glasgow, we like the city very much, especially Glasgow Green, and all the people we have met so far have been very friendly, supportive and welcoming."
The siblings are enrolled in an English as a second language course at Cardonald College, with Awadia hoping to get a place at Shawlands Academy to continue her education.
The family's plight was raised in Parliament by former SNP MP for Glasgow Central Alison Thewliss and Labour MSP Paul Sweeney.
Kaltouma is a volunteer at Gorbals Parish Church.
She is currently studying at Anniesland College to improve her English and works part-time with disabled children for Glasgow City Council.
Catriona Milligan, community development worker at Gorbals Parish Church, said: "I feel humbled, moved, overjoyed and relieved because there were times when we wondered if we were ever going to be able to reunite them.
"Kaltouma is a different person now to the one I first met five years ago and that is just lovely to see.
"Decency, love, prayer and determination, all of these things came together and the fight to reunite Kaltouma with her family pulled us together as a congregation and as a wider community.
"Kaltouma is loved and members of the wider community would regularly come to the church and ask her how she was doing and give her a hug.
"The ripple effects of the campaign to reunite the family will last for a long time to come in the Gorbals."
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