Background information about the global refugee crisis, specific info about the Syrian refugee crisis, and some info about how Canada is helping/responding, including hubs of private sponsorship in Toronto.

2. 38.2 million displaced inside their own countries
19.5 million refugees – half from Somalia, Afghanistan,
Syria
1.8 million people were awaiting claims for asylum
Every day in 42,5000 people become a refugee, are internally
displaced, or seek asylum. That's 1 in every 122 people,

3. Neighbouring countries take in the most refugees.

4. Lebanon – 1.2 million | Jordan – 650,000
Turkey - 2.1 million | (50% children)

5. Lebanon has a population of about 4.5 million...

6. The Zaatari camp in Jordan opened in 2012. It's now
home to 80,000 Syrians. If it were a city, it would be
Jordan's fourth-biggest.

8. In 2014 only 126,800 refugees
were able to return to their home
countries.
The average time a refugee will
spend in exile is 17 years.
Refugees want to go home

9. And, so we act

1956 - more than 37,000 Hungarians accepted
into Canada

1972-1973 - 7,000 Ismaili Muslims from
Uganda

1973 - over 7,000 Chilean and other Latin
American refugees were admitted

1978-81 - 60,000 Indochinese refugees from
Vietnam

1970-1990 - 20,000 Soviet Jews

1992 - 5,000 Bosnian Muslims

1999 - 5,000 Kosovars airlifted in 4 months

10. Today
25,000 Syrian refugees to Canada by the end of
February, 2016 (0.00625%). Processing 4,511
privately sponsored Syrian refugees.

12. Map of Lifeline Syria
Sponsor Groups