Welcome Home: offering newly arrived refugees a safe, affordable home, supportive community, and settlement assistance since 2004.
208 Allen St E, Waterloo, ON
Joined October 2014
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#ThankYou for your support of local ❤️ refugees! As Welcome Home Refugee House undergoes a leadership & organizational transition on Oct 1st, our hope & prayer is that you will continue to support the importance of #RefugeeHousing 🏚️🏢🏡🏩 here in KW and beyond.
'It gave me hope': New Zealand charity gives refugees bikes and teaches them to ride.
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#ThankYou for your support of local ❤️ refugees! As Welcome Home Refugee House undergoes a leadership & organizational transition on Oct 1st, our hope & prayer is that you will continue to support the importance of #RefugeeHousing 🏚️🏢🏡🏩 here in KW and beyond.
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Happy #BackToSchool to all newcomer and international students in #WRAwesome! Enjoy #school this year and don't forget to @ExploreWR
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#employersWR are you interested in sponsoring or hiring refugees? Yes? So you should attend this info session about a great opp for a Workplace Refugee Sponsorship Program, hosted by @WorkforceWWD @ImmigrationWR @RefugeeHub & @mccorg, JUL31. Registration bit.ly/2Z8Ac8b
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KPL career workshops help guide newcomer youth through future in Kitchener ift.tt/2YfD0mG
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The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives has calculated the rental wage—the hourly wage needed to rent an average two-bedroom apartment (the most common type) without spending more than 30% of one’s earnings.
You can check it out here:
policyalternatives.ca/rental…
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After 5 years, 63% of permanent residents stayed in WR, 33% left and an additional 54% that had lived elsewhere had moved to WR. Resulting in a five-year net migration increase of 21%. More info w @ImmigrationWR & @ROWPublicHealth WR Immigration Profile @ bit.ly/327Dc6S
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Syrian family’s Kitchener shop, Ammar Halal Meats, has become a cultural gathering spot. Read the “World of Food” column by @cardamomaddict in the July-August edition of Grand magazine: bit.ly/2LUWLd0
Photo: Alisha Townsend (freshstudios.ca)
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Developing countries host 84% of the world's refugees.
Why do those who have little, give the most?
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New Canadians more optimistic than the rest of the country, poll suggests! Read this CBC article: cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scot… and share #ImmigrationMatters
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Legal aid cuts hurt refugee claimants, Mennonite Coalition for Refugee Support says
therecord.com/news-story/948…
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On Canada Day, a Syrian refugee says ‘thank you’ to his new country therecord.com/opinion-story/…
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The NRC is moving!
Aug 12th, we will be open at our new location: 77 Young Street, first floor.
Please RT to help us get the message out!
@WCDSBNewswire @YMCAsofCandKW @YMCAImmigrant @StLouisWCDSB @WCDSBIntl @highlandmom #WCDSBESL #WCDSBAwesome
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Did you know ION light rail service starts before 5 a.m. and runs until after 1 a.m.? Check out the full schedule here grt.ca/en/schedules-maps/res…
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"Instead of thinking of refugees as people who are passive recipients of aid, how about re-imagining refugees as people who have assets to contribute, who have talents and skills that we need in Canada?" said Minister of IRC Ahmed Hussen bit.ly/2ZLVZCr
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The United Nations Refugee Agency's annual global trends report shows Canada took in 28,100 of the 92,400 refugees who were resettled in 25 countries during 2018. cbc.ca/1.5182621
