Lgbt Refugees: Mike Tutthill and Settlement Workers

lgbt refugees: We've done a call out to the community to ask for help in providing additional hours to our counsellors, said Mike Tutthill, the centre's executive director, according to CBC. He added staff are hoping to get more government funding and donations to pay for the increased demand in counselling. The Rainbow Resource Centre calls the increase over the last two weeks dramatic, and says its counsellors are becoming overwhelmed with calls from refugees, their lawyers and settlement workers. Frostbitten refugee will lose fingers after trek to cross U.S.-Canada border Gay Syrian finds refuge in Winnipeg The story of LGBT refugees coming to Winnipeg in search of a better life hit the spotlight this month after two Ghanaian men fled to Canada on Christmas Eve in the bitter cold. Just a few weeks prior, a gay man from Syria arrived in Winnipeg, ending a five-year search for refuge that some of his friend didn't survive. The journey left both men severely injured with serious frostbite requiring amputation. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.