Article contentEvery day Andrea McCoy receives up to five emails from refugees desperate to come to Canada. As the messages flood in, she writes back, “I can’t help you at this time.”She works for the Anglican diocese on Vancouver Island, which has privately sponsored more than 800 refugees since 2016. Try refreshing your browser, or Canada now resettles more refugees than any other country, mostly through private sponsorship Back to videoStephen Watt fields 20 such requests a day. He runs a website, Northern Lights Canada, that matches refugees with sponsors. Private sponsorship gives citizens the power to offer refugees a new life in Canada.

Source: National Post December 30, 2020 23:15 UTC