Refugee crisis a ‘defining moment for Canada’: GG

A federal solicitation document posted Monday names December 10 as the date when the first flights are planned to carry refugees from camps in Jordan and Turkey to Canadian soil.

Raddatz said the US has spent more than $4 billion in humanitarian aid and about $668 million for refugee aid in Jordan.

“The thing that I really learned in listening to the refugees themselves is their intense desire to return to their country and [get] repatriated”, Carson said, as quoted on the CNN website.

McCallum said the resettlement effort is still looking for private individuals to step forward and help with lodging the refugees, and with finding them jobs in the future.

“We don’t want Canadians to think we’re giving refugees everything and not accommodating the needs of our own people”, he said.

CBN Disaster Relief partners with many Christian groups around the world that are inside the refugee camps building churches and Christian schools, while also providing people with food, water, blankets, and many other necessities.

Simply being helpless and dependent on others is psychologically taxing for many, noted Yon in an interview from Beirut. “They have these refugee camps for decades, but right now they’re primarily dedicated to Syrians”. “Hundreds” of physicians have volunteered their services, says Dr. Phillip Berger, co-chairman of Canadian Doctors for Refugee Care.

Ben Carson recently sent out a letter to many people in the United States, following his recent trip to Jordan.

More than 80% of Syrian refugees in Jordan are living below the local poverty line, according to Amnesty.

Privately-sponsored refugees – who make up the majority of the 10,000 people the government says it will resettle by year’s end – will not have their cases flow through the registration centre but are likely to depart on flights from the same airport. Why do you want to recreate the wheel when you have something that’s working? Last week the Central States Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church published an open letter for Brownback calling on the governor not to “let fear dictate our actions when considering our approach to welcoming Syrian refugees”. “Syrian refugees as young as three years old are being exploited illegally as child labor by farmers and companies in Jordan”, BBC reported in November.

“Our caucus position remains that we’re supportive of the program as it is, because it’s worked for several decades”, said Rempel, the MP for Calgary Nose Hill.

It is not just the horrors they endured in Syria that torment them, but the loss of dignity and other difficulties of being on the run, said Elshazly.

The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees ordered Better Shelters last Spring and Ikea has stepped up with donations of over €100 million to the United Nations Refugee Agency. That’s what the refugees will tell you.