Ottawa Food Bank and Jewish Family Services

United for Refugees: Jewish Family Services, for instance, will offer mental health counselling to children, according to CBC. The Ottawa Food Bank will use its $35,000 to meet a growing demand for food. CBC Ottawa Syrian refugee coverage United for Refugees starts taking funding applications Refugee 613, United for Refugees programs unveiled at Ottawa City Hall Three-quarters of the funding will go toward settlement projects, such as language and employment training. Bashar Alhalabi was a dermatologist in Damascus, but after the war began in Syria, he moved to Ottawa in 2013. The other quarter of the amount raised, meanwhile, will go to private sponsors who plan to bring 89 refugees to Ottawa. With funding from the United for Refugees campaign, he will sponsor his sister and her family to come to Ottawa. "We're estimating at this point between 400 and 600 people are turning to food banks across the city specifically from the Syrian refugee group," said Michael Maidment, executive director of the Ottawa Food Bank. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.