refugees welcomed
Toronto: Newcomer Kitchen, an initiative started by the Depanneur
restaurant, encourages Syrian refugee women to take over their kitchen and create meals available for purchase through the restaurant’s website. The profits go to keeping the kitchen running, paying an hourly wage to the women, and eventually creating a playbook that will encourage other restaurants to open their kitchen doors to those who might need it.
Montreal: McGill professor Anita Nowak gave
Ottawa: Likened to Kijiji,
Homeful.ca matches refugees
who need clothing and household items with donors who want to give them away. Started by volunteers from a private settlement group, Refugee 613, the site works like an online swap shop, eliminating the need for warehousing donated items.
the business students in her social entrepreneurship class a unique assignment this year: help make integration easier for Syrian refugees in Canada. The students’ projects included a housing cooperative, a mental health initiative, a mobile app that connects volunteer babysitters with refugee families, and Ride With Me, an app that would both allow refugees to benefit from a carpooling service offered by local public transit, as well as a ‘buddy system’ that makes navigating public transportation easier.
Halifax: Several Halifax community
groups and businesses have come together to form Welcoming Wheels, a group that takes in donated bicycles, repairs them, and gives them to refugees. Refugees receive a bicycle, helmet, and lock, as well as a three-hour training session on bicycle safety.
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