Crichton Park Friends of Refugees and Private Sponsorship

Nabiah Atallah: Nabiah Atallah, manager of communications and outreach at ISANS, said there are now more than 100 private sponsorship groups working on bringing Syrian refugee families to Nova Scotia. "There is a special thing about private refugee sponsorship, which is that the family that is sponsored comes in with a group of Canadian friends, according to CBC. They start off with a group of friends in the community," said Atallah. Crichton Park Friends of Refugees in Dartmouth is one of the newest and has raised $27,000 in a little over a month. "This whole thing has been organic," said Deborah Woolway, chairwoman of the group. "Initially there was a little, 'Gosh can we do this ' You know there a lot of money to raise and it getting on to Christmas and we sent out a few feelers, and then one coffee and muffin date and that was it, we were off to the races." Halifax developers offer free apartments for Syrian refugees Nova Scotia Muslim group United for One raising $200K for refugees Crichton Park Friends of Refugees is working closely with Immigrant Services Association of Nova Scotia. History of helping Carole Mac Lean is one of the volunteers involved in the Crichton Park Friend of Refugees. The neighbourhood put those skills to work in the past. She said her neighbourhood is full of people with many skills to pass along to refugees once they arrive. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.