See at the Picnic en Blanc, Saturday, June 16 at 5pm. We are gathering at the Millstone Estate Winery, 2300 East Wellington Rd, Nanaimo. #BC #ROAR

A key way to help an LGBTQ refugee get accepted into Canada is to sponsor them. Private sponsorship, a distinctive Canadian achievement, is one of the ways we can help protect refugees from around the world. See a good brief overview by the Canadian Council for Refugees. Since 1978 groups of Canadian private citizens have sponsored more than 200,000 refugees for resettlement in addition to federal government resettlement programs. Sponsors fund the first year of resettlement

Find our newsletter on the web. 2018 is our breakthrough year. It began with the arrival in February of the first refugee ROAR sponsored. A second refugee we are supporting overseas is still waiting to come to Canada. We expect him to arrive in the summer. Meanwhile, a new sponsorship group has just formed to begin the complex process of bringing a woman refugee to safety. We hope to inspire and motivate the community to support more LGBTQ refugees through our educational and