{"id":6561,"date":"2015-12-09T15:31:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-09T20:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cnewa.org\/ca\/2015\/12\/09\/canadians-get-a-glimpse-of-how-refugees-live-52677\/"},"modified":"2020-09-21T15:37:48","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T19:37:48","slug":"canadians-get-a-glimpse-of-how-refugees-live-52677","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cnewa.org\/ca\/canadians-get-a-glimpse-of-how-refugees-live-52677\/","title":{"rendered":"Canadians Get a Glimpse of How Refugees Live"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"imageborder\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cnewa.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/MesoRefugee3.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #808080; font-size: 11px;\">University students camp outside at Ryerson University in Toronto to raise awareness about refugees. (photo: Nansy Khanano\/KnanoArt)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We want to highlight the amazing efforts of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acssu.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Assyrian Chaldean Syriac Student Union<\/a> (ACSSU) of Canada. This group is making a difference to help Iraqi and Syrian refugees \u2014 and doing it in a very dramatic and thought-provoking way.<\/p>\n<p>From 16-19 November, in an event dubbed \u201cLife of a Mesopotamian Refugee,\u201d students in the greater Toronto area camped in tents for three nights on different university campuses. These young people wanted to raise awareness and be in solidarity with refugees from their homelands. They also collected donations, which will go towards CNEWA Canada\u2019s efforts to assist refugees.<\/p>\n<p>This student initiative was featured in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citynews.ca\/2015\/11\/16\/video-university-students-raising-awareness-about-refugees-by-sleeping-in-tent\/?show_id=1738\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a video on CityNews television<\/a> in Toronto. It was also in newspapers, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.catholicregister.org\/item\/21296-assyrian-students-in-solidarity-with-homelands\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an article in the Catholic Register<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We want to highlight the amazing efforts of the Assyrian Chaldean Syriac Student Union (ACSSU) of Canada.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":85460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"class_list":["post-6561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-interest"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.3 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Canadians Get a Glimpse of How Refugees Live | CNEWA 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