Reaching out to our Farm Community to Support Syrian Refugee Families
NSFA and LP Consulting have joined together to rally the Agricultural Community to come together to help with the worst humanitarian crisis of our time and support Syrian Refugee families find a safe place to live and raise their families. Over 12 million Syrians have fled their homes and have died in their efforts to find a safe place for their families. We welcomed over 37,000 Hungarians in 1956, 60,000 Vietnamese in 1970's and many others seeking refuge from war torn countries over the past decades. We are again heeding the call to bring 25,000 refugees to Canada in the next couple of months. We as an Agricultural Community can join other NS Communities in generously helping to save these families.
Under the Private Sponsorship Refugee Program, it costs $25,000 to sponsor a family of 4 through Immigration Services Association of Nova Scotia (ISANS). There is no commitment beyond the first year nor is there any requirement to provide resources such as placing the family, finding them housing, etc when making a monetary donation.
LP Consulting has kindly started the program by contributing $10,000 towards this worthy cause. With this donation, plus donations from others in the agriculture community there is now $14,000 to put towards the $25,000 to sponsor a family. The Federation staff will provide the administrative support to collect the donations and submit the funds to ISANS. Please contact Maxine at the Federation office to make arrangements for your donations. Tax receipts can be provided upon request for those making contributions.
To receive a tax receipt for the 2015 tax year, donations must be submitted by December 23, 2015, and to receive a tax receipt for the 2016 tax year, donations must be submitted by January 31, 2016. Please joins us in this important cause.
We thank you for such an important contribution!
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