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Tuesday, 23 December 2025

How a Syrian refugee family helped me feel Canadian – before being one yet

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I wasn’t a citizen yet. Still, I’ve never felt more Canadian than on a mild December day ten years ago, when we eagerly waited for a three-g...
Wednesday, 19 April 2023

Help us bring an Eritrean family of four to Canada

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We need your support - again! This year, our group is sponsoring an Eritrean father who was forced to flee his country over a decade ago and...
Thursday, 19 December 2019

Thanks to you, we have brought 20 refugees to Canada

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The Ripple Refugee Project is very pleased to announce the arrival of our latest privately-sponsored refugee family. The father, Khaled, ...
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Wednesday, 26 June 2019

When ESL classes are not an option: Homeschooling for a newcomer

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The importance of learning English for the successful settlement of newcomers can not be overstated. When the first former refugees we spo...
Wednesday, 22 May 2019

It takes a village

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Through the contact form on our blog, we recently received an email with the following question: “How do you organize yourselves so that th...
Wednesday, 3 April 2019

The Ripple Effect

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A living room meeting leads to a BVOR sponsorship group  Yosief Araya, Director of the Refugee Sponsorship Training Program (RSTP), re...
Wednesday, 13 February 2019

Refugees in need of sponsors

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Two of the three families we helped settle in Canada, including the Eritrean family of five who arrived in November 2018, have come here t...