Business Community and Jim Estill

Canada: Here a rundown of just some of the ways Canada business community is getting involved: Guelph CEO Ponies Up $1.5 Million To Sponsor Refugees The CEO of appliance manufacturer Danby is working to sponsor 50 refugee families under Canada private sponsorship program, according to Huffington Post Canada. Jim Estill, a former director at Black Berry, will be required to have $25,000 to $30,000 per refugee family, to help cover their cost of living for a year. Their efforts may not be as extravagant as Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris’ campaign to buy a Greek island to house refugees, or as generous as Ikea US$166 million in donations to the UN refugee agency, but they are making an impact all the same. That works out to as much as $1.5 million. "This is not pure charity," Estill told the Guelph Mercury. "You are not just giving people money. He said he expects the refugees will be a very hard-working group of people. You're setting them up to have a life." Jim Estill in a 2006 photo. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.