What does it mean to sponsor a refugee?
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