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Welcoming Newcomers Program - Donation Drive
We partnered with the ‘Welcoming Newcomers program’ at the University of Alberta to collect items for 6 refugee students who came to the U of A mid-December 2020, at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. These students were recipients of the David Turpin and Suromitra Sanatani Award for Refugees and Displaced Persons, which is facilitated by the UAI’s Global Education Program (Welcoming Newcomers Program).
Some background on the students:
All of these refugee students came from refugee camps in Africa - five from camps in Kenya
and one from Malawi. Originally the students come from Somalia, South Sudan, and the Congo. More
information on the United Nations Refugee Agency, UNHCR’s, work in refugee camps in Kenya can be found here.
Originally these students would have arrived in August 2020, however with the omnipresent pandemic, their arrival
was delayed and they needed to undergo a 14-day mandatory quarantine isolation period prior to moving into their
residence housing in the new year.
How we were able to help?
Alumni donated 3 Jackets, kitchen supplies (dishes, Tupperware, small kitchen processor), multiple blankets & towels, men’s clothing, toques.
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