Canadian Connections provides meaningful, low-barrier settlement support to refugees navigating new lives in Canada.

Our grassroots team of experienced volunteers came together in August 2021. International troops were quitting Afghanistan, leaving the door open for the Taliban to retake control and forcing Afghans who had supported the Canadian mission to flee. Who can forget the images? People standing in an open sewer for days, some wearing red scarves to show that they had papers to go to Canada.

Our government made many promises, but to this day many remain unfulfilled. Canadian Connections exists to try to fill some of these gaps.

Your financial gifts go towards the purchase of urgently-needed items, such as refurbished laptops, mattresses and bedding, and gift cards for food. We source and deliver high quality donated furniture to help families turn their space into a home. Working with an extensive network of community partners, we also direct newcomers to specialized services to help, for example, go back to school or find a job.

• $50 buys 1 grocery gift card
• $100 buys 1 food starter kit hamper (oil, flour, rice, lentils etc)
• $250 buys 1 mattress, sheet set and pillow
• $300 buys 1 refurbished laptop

Help build our vision of a Canada that genuinely embraces refugees, values their contribution to the social and economic fabric of our country, and eases their integration so that they feel supported to be who they want to be.