Calgary Centre: Rights Award and Care Packages

calgary centre: The award is being presented to her on behalf of the Calgary Centre for a Global Community . Metro reported on Khanchat humanitarian efforts back in May, when she mobilized the Calgary Syrian refugee newcomer community, asking them to donate whatever they could to help buy care packages those being forced from their homes by the fires, according to Metro News. We understand totally what they're feeling because we've passed through the same situation—we lost everything in just one second, maybe not from burning, but it still feels the same, she told Metro at the time. Saturday, Khanchat will be honoured with the People Choice and Human Rights Award for the work she did during the Fort McMurray wildfires. Arthur Clark, spokesman for the CCGC said Khanchat embodies what it means to be a humanitarian. Here is a person who fled a war in Syria and it obviously a horrible situation, and she comes to Calgary, opens a small business and then gets other newcomers involved with helping those fleeing the fires in Fort McMurray, he said. How could you find a better example. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.