By Sarah Dobell
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Liberian refugees Emmanuel Nagbe and Elizabeth Williams arrived last month at the Erik Nielsen Whitehorse International Airport. They were welcomed by Yukon Cares members. Samuel Kyakuwa (left), who arrived in Whitehorse in April, 2018, president Raquel De Queiroz, Nagbe, Williams and treasurer Sarah Dobell Yukon Cares, the local grassroots refugee re-settlement group, successfully supported the […]
Yukon Cares is a group of dedicated and determined volunteers who are focused on resettling refugees in Canada’s Arctic. High North News sat down with some of their volunteers to learn more about their work, the challenges they face, and the opportunities this program has created. The on-going crisis in Syria has caused incalculable devastation […]
By GREG SHARP
By Stephanie Waddell
After almost two weeks in the city, the Kyakuwa family says they are feeling very welcome in their new community. The family of eight arrived May 8 after a journey that took them from a refugee camp in Botswana to Vancouver and on to Whitehorse. The Kyakuwas are the most recent family to be sponsored […]
People gather to take basic food stuffs and other aid from community leaders distributing supplies to the 64,000-person refugee camp called Ruqban on the Jordan-Syria border in 2016. (The Associated Press) Whitehorse-based charitable group Yukon Cares is hoping to bring four more refugee families to the territory within the next year or two, according to its president, […]
By Dave Croft
By CBC News
Yukon’s newest residents, a family of 11 who fled the civil war in Syria, arrived in Whitehorse Saturday. (Sandi Coleman/CBC) Dozens of Yukoners gathered at the Whitehorse airport Saturday to welcome Yukon’s newest residents: a family of 11 Syrian refugees who are the first to settle in the North under the current sponsorship program. The family was greeted […]
