Entrepreneur Jim Estill spent CA$1.5m of his own money to bring Syrian refugees to Canada.
Jim Estill has personally enabled more than 300 Syrians to start a new life in Canada
A successful Canadian businessman, he vowed to enable Syrian refugees to settle in Canada, simply because"it was the right thing to do". So Jim decided he would take matters into his own hands - he would spend 1.5m Canadian dollars of his own money bringing Syrian refugees from the Middle East to his home city of Guelph, Ontario, some 60 miles west of Toronto.
People provided spare rooms, or helped find empty apartments, and the Salvation Army took the lead in collecting donated clothes to help the refugees stay warm during Canada's cold winters. Meanwhile, Jim arranged for each Syrian family to have access to both English and Arabic mentors, so they could get their children enrolled in schools, start looking for jobs, get bank accounts and so on.
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