Local churches, synagogues, mosques line up to sponsor Syrian families

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Local churches, synagogues, mosques line up to sponsor Syrian families
Topic Started: Dec 4 2015, 03:55 PM (571 Views)
Darcie	Dec 4 2015, 03:55 PM Post #1
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	Quote: Organized religion often gets a bad rap. But as the Greater Montreal region scrambles to figure out how to accommodate the more than 6,000 Syrian refugees expected to arrive here over the next year, the “organized” nature of religion, it seems, is quite welcome. Faith communities are taking concrete steps not only to meet the needs of refugees but to harness the strong desire of so many Montrealers to help out. The Montreal Gazette spoke to several local religious leaders this week about their efforts to sponsor and provide for Syrian families. At the Dorval Mosque, for example, the initiative to sponsor refugees started more than two years ago as worshippers with family members in Syria approached Mosque leaders for help. The mosque has raised over $100,000 so far, and intends to sponsor five families. The government requires sponsors to show they can provide at least $12,000 for each individual sponsored refugee, and $22,000 for a couple with three children, plus $1,531 per additional child. Since the mosque is currently working on sponsoring 33 people — one of the families includes 11 children — fundraising efforts continue. http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/local-churches-synagogues-mosques-line-up-to-sponsor-syrian-families How nice to see this, the Rabbi on the right is the one who married my granddaughter & husband.

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Darcie	Dec 5 2015, 07:07 AM Post #16
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	FuzzyO Dec 5 2015, 06:36 AM Actually French immersion is a program offered in English schools. French schools do have English classes, have never hear of an English immersion class in a French school but I suppose it could happen. It used to be that you could choose to have your child educated in either language, now you can only send your child to an English school if you yourself were educated in one. Anyone moving into Quebec automatically must send their child to a French school. If you are Canadian and move to Quebec and you were educated in English you children also can be educated in English. There are dispensations given (generous I understand) for the children of foreigners who come to work for companies in Quebec on a temporary basis. My daughter has a friend who was given a 5 year dispensation, he came from California to work in a US Company in Montreal. My daughter works for that company and they work totally and entirely in English. I have to add that many who come to other provinces do not have the opportunity to educate their children in French, because there often are no French schools. With all the whining going on no one said that Canada is a legal Bilingual Country, and I guess until there is equal access to both languages in other provinces Quebec feels that it will equalize the situation for French in their province since the other 9 provinces do for English in theirs. Edited by Darcie, Dec 5 2015, 07:10 AM.



campy	Dec 5 2015, 07:09 AM Post #17
Handyman Extraordinaire Posts: 28,720 Group: no politics Member #204 Joined: February 2, 2006	But it looks like no dispensations for the refugees from Syria. I don't think they will mind anyway if they want to find a job and stay in Quebec. They really don't have much choice.



FuzzyO	Dec 5 2015, 07:38 AM Post #18
Posts: 16,968 Group: Administration Member #710 Joined: March 30, 2010	Darcie are you sure that if you are an Anglophone coming from another province you can send your kids to an English school?



FuzzyO	Dec 5 2015, 07:44 AM Post #19
Posts: 16,968 Group: Administration Member #710 Joined: March 30, 2010	Ok, I answered my own question. Originally the parents of the child had to have been educated in Quebec, but it was amended to entitle the children of English-educated parents from anywhere in Canada to receive their education in English.



heatseeker	Dec 5 2015, 07:46 AM Post #20
Veteran Member Posts: 10,320 Group: Member Member #713 Joined: March 30, 2010	If these newcomers wind up in Montreal, as I suspect most will, their children will pick up both English and French as a matter of course. Lucky kids. That is a huge advantage.



Trotsky	Dec 5 2015, 08:21 AM Post #21
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	When I was last in Montreal, nobody would speak to me in English until I first explained I was from Pennsylvania. Then they got real friendly.



angora	Dec 5 2015, 08:31 AM Post #22
WWS Book Club Coordinator Posts: 14,494 Group: Member Member #717 Joined: March 31, 2010	My quibble with French immersion upon which bandwagon everyone I know jumped is this: what about all the bright LD kids. Do you imagine it is easy for a dyslexic to learn to read in two languages before they've been able to master one. Also, what about the ones with auditory processing problems. That truly causes a mess since so much instruction is oral and the French speakers are really uptight about pronunciation.



Bitsy	Dec 5 2015, 09:28 AM Post #23
Veteran Member Posts: 31,383 Group: Member Member #267 Joined: March 11, 2006	heatseeker Dec 5 2015, 07:46 AM If these newcomers wind up in Montreal, as I suspect most will, their children will pick up both English and French as a matter of course. Lucky kids. That is a huge advantage. You are spot on. It will be a huge advantage.



Darcie	Dec 5 2015, 11:26 AM Post #24
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	angora Dec 5 2015, 08:31 AM My quibble with French immersion upon which bandwagon everyone I know jumped is this: what about all the bright LD kids. Do you imagine it is easy for a dyslexic to learn to read in two languages before they've been able to master one. Also, what about the ones with auditory processing problems. That truly causes a mess since so much instruction is oral and the French speakers are really uptight about pronunciation. Sure isn't but my severely dyslexic grandson and his sister are both bilingual. It was difficult for sure, but my daughter said she wanted to give them all the advantages they could have. They had to work really hard and put in long hours. It worked as both use French in their jobs, my grandson in the armed forces and my granddaughter doing computer animation etc. for a lot of Quebec companies.



angora	Dec 6 2015, 03:35 AM Post #25
WWS Book Club Coordinator Posts: 14,494 Group: Member Member #717 Joined: March 31, 2010	Glad it worked for your family. It sure didn't for mine.



swing	Dec 6 2015, 06:58 AM Post #26
swing Posts: 9,979 Group: Member Member #359 Joined: August 18, 2006	My quibble with French immersion upon which bandwagon everyone I know jumped is this: This also was the case in the west. We lived in Victoria at the time, however not so prevelant there, in fact I never knew of a french Immersion school although i'm sure there was one. Upon moving to Ottawa our daughter was in grade 4. DH researched late immersion and decided against putting her in. We also opted out of early immersion with our son. Our daughter dropped grade 11 and 12 french as it was bringing her grade point down. French was not a requirement for Journalism school at Carleton U in Ottawa! Problem, dad took a transfer to Edmonton in her last year of H.S. French was a requirement for an Arts/English degree at U of A! She had to take a year off after H.S. worked at Safeway and did her grade 11 and 12 french, then entered U of A the next year! Some people have an aptitude for languages others do not. She graduated with distinction, but certainly struggled with French all through H.S. Edited by swing, Dec 6 2015, 07:00 AM.



Darcie	Dec 6 2015, 08:33 AM Post #27
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	Languages are always a plus, one granddaughter is trilingual, apart from French and English she also has Spanish. The one in Vancouver added German, she still can't figure out why. She is a teacher and says it does help her shopping on line in Germany.



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