Syrian Refugee Family Update

Dear Friends and Supporters,

We are very pleased to announce that we have at last received a match for our refugee sponsorship. We received confirmation late last week that we are sponsoring a Syrian family of 6, currently living in Lebanon. The family is made up of a mother and a father, and their four children, ages 13, 12, 7 and 2.

We are very excited to be in the next phase of our sponsorship. Right now we are busy finalizing paperwork and getting things in order, though we
still don’’t know when the family will arrive. The window we have been given is 3-16 weeks, and it likely it will be sooner rather than later. We have also been told that we will be given as little as 24 hours notice before they arrive.

We will be updating our list of items needed for donation now that we know the family composition, so please check it out and see if there is
anything you are able to provide. http://www.signupgenius.com/go/10c094dadaf2ca3f58-household

We also need to secure housing, which is tricky, since we don’t know for sure when the family will arrive. But we do have a number of positive
leads. We hope to get the family settled in permanent housing as soon as possible.

Once again, we would like to thank you for being supporters of this sponsorship. We would not have gotten this far without the generosity and
kindness of the Essex-Hawthorne community. As well, we have an awesome committee of dedicated and committed members. Together, we have made it to the next step and will soon be welcoming a Syrian refugee family to Toronto.

Thanks again,
Essex-Hawthorne Syrian Refugee Sponsorship Committee