Calendar from January to April 2019

READY TOUR is a free program for refugee claimants waiting for their refugee hearing.
Sign UP and visit a refugee hearing room.
If you are a refugee claimant, this is a unique opportunity to be better prepared for your hearing, see an actual refugee hearing room.
For many refugee claimants the time before their hearing is stressful.  The refugee hearing caused them additional stress and anxiety.
Benefits of the Ready Tour

• Learn what  will happen at the refugee hearing
• Levels of anxiety  will  decrease
• Empower participants to be well prepare for their  refugee hearing
• Learn who can participate at your hearing
• What to do if you did not attend your hearing, or it was canceled
• What will happen when the hearing finish

REGISTRATION

If you want to register for the Ready Tour, please  answer the following questions and send it to Carolina Teves cteves@fcjrefugeecentre.org

1. First name
2. Last name
3. E mail:
4. Telephone number:
5. Country of origin:
6. Date of claim:(Month/Year)
7. Hearing date:(Month/Day/Year)
8. Do you have a legal representative?
9. Who referred you to the Ready Tour, how did you learn about it?
10. What do you want to learn during the Ready Tour?

Ready Tours are scheduled FROM 9:30 AM TO 11:30 AM as follow:

Our seasonal newsletter provides exciting updates on:

1. Every act of generosity counts!
2. Fabian’s Story
3. Selling Christmas trees at Ikea North York
4. Art exhibition on January 3rd 2019
5. A volunteer experience at the FCJ Primary Care Clinic
6. FCJ Refugee Centre is pleased to receive funding from the Catalyst Grant
7. A Ready Tour Story …..

Today, on the 70^th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the Canadian Council for Refugees (CCR) underlines its message that everyone is deserving of basic rights and human dignity, not because of their citizenship or their immigration status, but because they are human beings.

For refugees fleeing persecution, Article 14 of the Declaration is key: “Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.” This fundamental right is now part of international and Canadian law. On this basis, anyone who makes a refugee claim at the border or within Canada must be given a chance to explain why they need our protection.

Despite the promise of the Declaration, refugees and migrants still have their rights abused and face exploitation and situations of human trafficking around the world. Migrants are often subject to xenophobia and targeted by divisive politicians.

Canadians can be proud that Canada is showing leadership in bringing countries together to improve respect for the rights of all migrants with the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration. While the Compact is not legally binding, it offers a pathway of cooperation between countries that will reduce the pressures forcing people to leave their home countries. When people do migrate, this new framework will increase respect for individual rights and allow receiving communities, including in Canada, to benefit more fully from migrants’ contributions.

As a world leader in championing human rights, Canada must strive to do better and respect the rights of refugees and migrants. This means that Canada should:

• Address the root causes that force people to leave their home countries (including climate change and Canadian involvement in situations of displacement).
• Resettle 20,000 Government-Assisted Refugees each year.
• Process Privately Sponsored Refugee applications within one year.
• Withdraw from the Canada-US Safe Third Country Agreement.
• Guarantee access to fair and independent refugee determination within a reasonable time.
• Reunite refugees in Canada with their families more quickly.
• Ensure access to justice for exploited or trafficked migrants.
• Offer access to permanent residence to all migrant workers.
• Ensure that immigration status does not bar access to key international rights in Canada. Canada too often ties rights and benefits to immigration status, excluding people with limited or no status.

Canadian Council for Refugees

Thank you to Dr Jizi  Moza, Director of the Clinic: Clinica Integral de Atención a Retornados, for sharing his experience working with returnees to El Salvador.

The presentation was very informative, It was great to learn about the impact of deportation on immigrants and how a Comprehensive Care Clinic has been set up in Central America to help them.

Every year, more than 13,000 people are deported from the United States to El Salvador. Dr Jizi  Moza explained that many of them do not have access to basic services like health. People who was living for decades are deported to a country they have not seen in years.

As part of the Holiday Season, FCJ Refugee Center has started to sell Christmas trees at Ikea north York location.

The tree selling season is from November 23th to December 24th. Every time that you buy a tree at this location, you will be supporting newcomers and refugees.

Also when you purchase a natural fir tree for $25 you will receive a coupon for $25 off an IKEA purchase.

To help fund its important work, the FCJ Refugee Centre has launched an ambitious Fall fundraising and awareness-raising campaign that includes several ways to support the centre. Please check it out here and join us!

We would like to invite you to help us keep celebrating by donating $25.00 (or more) to ensure our continued commitment to “walking with uprooted people.” 

Celebrating the canonization of Monsignor Oscar Arnulfo Romero. You are invited to the events  to celebrate the life of the first human rights  ombudsman in El Salvador.

Please find the information on our upcoming  activities and events.

The Summer Newsletter edition is dedicated to our Ride for Refuge event on September 29th 2018/.

We are looking for  your support!!
|Please join us:  https://secure.e2rm.com/registrant/TeamFundraisingPage.aspx?teamID=812418#&panel1-2

SUMMER 2018

Come join the FCJ Refugee Centre teams and ride/walk and help us to help provide services for refugees!  The Ride for Refuge on Saturday, September 29, 2018 is a super-fun, family-friendly fundraiser that supports charities who provide refuge and hope for displaced, vulnerable and exploited people everywhere.

JOIN ONE  OF THE  FCJ REFUGEE CENTRE TEAMS

If you want to ride/walk with us or make a donation please follow the link:

https://secure.e2rm.com/registrant/donate.aspx?eventid=241238&teamID=812418

You are invited to join a one-day training with Olivia Chow at Ryerson University.

The Safe Third Country Agreement is putting thousands of refugees in the way of harm. This agreement doesn’t have to continue. If we organize, we can end it.

1. The Institute will deliver a full-day training about how to tell your story to inspire action on social change, and how to plan a strategy with both a theory of change that builds and leverages power, and the most effective possible tactics.

2. Students will complete the workshop having practiced telling their story, and having received feedback on how to enhance their story. Participants will create a shared organizing statement with clear goals and a realistic timeline to organize to end the Safe Third Country Agreement

Venue:  Ryerson University, (Room Numbers are being confirmed)

Address: 350 Victoria St. Toronto ON

Registration: This is the link:  https://endthesafethirdcountry.eventbrite.ca

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