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When you donate to The Nadia and Darrick Heyd Refuge Fund at Toronto Foundation, your gift will help refugees and asylum seekers get to better places, and build better lives. Donations of $25 or more to this fund are eligible for a Canadian Charitable receipt for tax purposes.

Right now we are focusing on sponsoring a family of six from the Democratic Republic of Congo, currently living in South Africa. They fled violence in the DRC but have been unable to attain citizenship or even refugee status, and have few rights – despite many years of trying.

The Ottawa South Committee for Refugee Support, working together with Trinity Anglican Ottawa has some very kind-hearted and experienced sponsorship volunteers who are ready and willing to welcome this family, and support them in many ways as they prepare to come to Canada to begin to build a better life here. Why Ottawa? The family has relatives who made a similar journey and settled there. Nothing would make this family happier than to reunite with their loved ones and become part of Canadian society, with all the rights and responsibilities that entails.

Please join us in making the world a more hospitable place for this family who has been through SO much and deserve – as much as anyone – a proper home and a good life.

Please donate to the Heyd Refuge Fund at Toronto Foundation.