West Kootenay Global Awareness Network hosts movie night in support of refugee crisis
By Contributor
The West Kootenay Global Awareness Network is playing a movie Tuesday (March 29) at the Front Room with the three groups working to sponsor refugees — the Cathedral Refugee Committee, the Kootenay Refugee Coalition and the Nelson Friends of Refugees — in attendance.
The evening begins at 7 p.m. at the Front Room at 901 Front Street in Nelson.
“The global refugee crisis has dominated the news for many many months, we here in our little piece of paradise could just bury our heads and pretend that it doesn’t involve us, but we are all on this planet together and what happens to one of us happens to all of us,” a spokesperson said in a release.
“Because of this, there are three different initiates in the Nelson Area to help resettle three families who have lived through awful situations and need our help and support.”
The Kootenay Refugee Coalition has been active in this area for quite some time and have brought numerous families to this area, right now they have two women from Africa and are working on bringing their children here -those children are now in a camp in very unsettled conditions.
The two newly formed groups, the Cathedral Refugee Committee and the Nelson Friends of Refugees are both working hard to lay the needed ground work to bring two more families into the area.
Both groups have secured housing and are actively working to furnish and outfit those houses with donations from individuals and local businesses. They are also preparing language translation and ESL as well as heath care and schooling.
All three groups have Facebook pages and you can access their websites through there and see ways in which you can help.
