Private sponsorship pathways
Private sponsorship pathways
Private sponsorship programmes allow individuals, groups of individuals or organizations to nominate specific refugees to enter and stay in their country.
These programmes are a tangible way for communities to directly support refugees.
These programmes are a tangible way for communities to directly support refugees.
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To escape conflict, Syrian wrestling champion Mohammad and his family fled to the Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan. There, Mohammed established a training programme and taught wrestling to 25,000 young people. After four years in the camp, he and his family moved to Canada thanks to a private sponsor and a local church who raised the funds to bring them to the country within only 3 weeks.
Today, he spends most of his days volunteering at a local wrestling club where he aims to produce nothing less than world champions.
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