Nine years in crisis
The ongoing humanitarian emergency in Syria As the crisis in Syria enters its ninth year, the need for life-saving essentials in the conflict-ravaged country remains immense — and urgent. An estimated 13.5 million need humanitarian assistance — including 6.6 million...
A Canadian staffer reflects on her time helping displaced Syrians in Iraq
“Every refugee story strikes me on a personal level” By Karen Whiting, as told to Hannah Scott Originally from Ottawa, Karen Whiting is an Assistant Representative for Protection based in Baghdad, Iraq. She is responsible for establishing UNHCR’s protection...
Faces of Syria
Nine years since the start of the conflict in Syria the number of people who have been forcibly displaced continues to increase. 13.5 million are in need of humanitarian assistance. Behind this number are the stories of individual people whose lives have been...
Knowledge and gratitude inspired donor’s legacy gift
Ann Atkinson remembers sitting in a darkened movie theatre at just five years old, intently watching the grainy, black-and-white newsreels of refugees fleeing Poland and Czechoslovakia in the aftermath of the Second World War. “I didn’t know what I was seeing until...
Yemen: faces from the front lines of a humanitarian emergency
Yemen remains the world’s worst humanitarian disaster with more than 24 million people who require humanitarian or protection assistance. Since 2015, Yemen’s conflict has killed 17,000 civilians and displaced 3.65 million. Escalating conflict continues to cause...
The Tailor Project’s 70-year-old roots help today’s skilled refugees
Seven decades later, The Tailor Project’s legacy lives on in a brighter future for refugees By Fiona Irvine-Goulet Like threads woven through the fabric of history, 90-something Montrealer Irving Leibgott, originally from Poland, and 43-year-old Mohamad*, a Syrian...
Meet the Canadian CEO sponsoring and hiring refugees
“I try to do better every day.” By Lauren La Rose Meet the homegrown entrepreneur giving hundreds of refugees a fresh start in Canada. “Do the right thing” is much more to Jim Estill than his appliance company’s corporate tagline: it’s a personal motto that has guided...
Young Salvadoran works to protect his community from gang violence
By Diana Diaz Adults often look back at their early teenage years, as some of the best ones of their life—a time when they were young, careless and free; a time when they could make mistakes and learn for the future. But for young men like Jose*, being careless, free...