Fwd: Want to take in a Refugee? Get in Line

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From: The New York Times <nytimes@e.newyorktimesinfo.com>
Date: Fri, Jul 1, 2016 at 4:03 PM
Subject: Want to take in a Refugee? Get in Line
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How Ordinary Canadians Are Embracing Syrians, a Family at a Time. View in browser Want to Take in a Refugee? Get in Line. How Ordinary Canadians Are Embracing Syrians, a Family at a Time. Dear New York Times Readers, Today we are writing to share our article about a phenomenon in Canada that has been helping refugees start new lives, even as resistance to accepting migrants has grown in other countries. Ordinary citizens, from dog walking groups to poker buddies, have been banding together in small groups to sponsor — more or less adopt for a year — Syrian refugees, in one of the world's few private resettlement programs. In our reporting, we witnessed the Canadians confronting the responsibility they had taken on, and the Syrians wondering how to preserve some autonomy while relying on these eager volunteers. As you read this story of unlikely partners — complemented by Damon Winter's stirring photographs — we hope you will grapple with the same questions we did: Can such an arrangement work, in Canada or elsewhere? Can private citizens, moved by terrible news about migrants, intervene and heal some of the suffering? Yours, Jodi Kantor and Catrin Einhorn READ NOW You received this email because you are a registered user of The New York Times. To ensure delivery of emails from The New York Times, please add nytimes@e.newyorktimesinfo.com to your address book. Privacy Policy | Contact Us ©2016 The New York Times Company | P.O. Box 8041, Davenport, IA 52808-8041