OTTAWA — The federal government said Tuesday it will match private donations made until the end of this month to help ease Bangladesh’s massive burden in coping with refugees fleeing from Myanmar. As a result Canada will match, dollar-for-dollar, any donation between Aug. 25 and Nov. 28 to Canadian charities helping in the Rohingya refugee crisis, she said. The government will make its matching donations to the Myanmar Crisis Relief Fund. An additional 600,000 Rohingya, nearly 70 per cent of them women and children, have fled to Bangladesh since August, Bibeau said. “Also, a huge number of women who experienced or witnessed gender-based violence, need treatment and counselling,” said Choudhury.

Source: National Post October 31, 2017 16:35 UTC