For nurse practitioner Georg MacDonald it’s personal – the work that the Canadian Afghan Rescue Effort (CARE) in Shelburne has done and is doing to bring a family of nine Afghan refugees to Canada. | SaltWire
Members of the Afghan family being sponsored by the Canadian Afghan Rescue Effort committee in Shelburne ride in the back of a truck while fleeing flood conditions in Pakistan, where they are waiting to come to Canada. CONTRIBUTED - CONTRIBUTEDSHELBURNE, N.S. — For nurse practitioner Georg MacDonald it’s personal – the work that the Canadian Afghan Rescue Effort in Shelburne has done and is doing to bring a family of nine Afghan refugees to Canada.
"He was able to get his family moved from Afghanistan to Pakistan. They are now waiting to come to Canada and he’s back on a mission to Sierra Leone. His family is refugees, he’s a refugee and still doing humanitarian work. He’s just an amazing man.” The online fundraiser will be facilitated by Me to We on its Facebook group, says committee member Mimi Champagne.
This is untrue, she said, quoting from the Government of Canada website: ‘Refugees do not get more financial help from the federal government than Canadian pensioners. A commonly shared email makes this false claim. The email falsely includes the one-time start-up payment as part of the monthly payment. The amount of monthly financial support that government-assisted refugees get is based on social assistance rates in each province and territory.
Since 2016, like-minded people have come together in Shelburne to help Syrian refugee families come to Canada, said MacDonald. Champagne said there are currently two groups trying to bring in refugees to the Shelburne area – the CARE Committee and the Shelburne Refugee Support group, which has applied to sponsor a third family and other relatives of a family already here; a further seven people, five adults and two children.
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