From Fall 2015 until the end of April, 2019, the York University Syria Response and Refugee Initiative (SRRI) led York’s participation in the Pan-GTA Ryerson University Lifeline Syria Challenge to sponsor Syrian refugees and helped educate, mobilize and work with York students to promote awareness and become engaged in refugee issues on campus and with the wider community.
In July 2019, Project Lead John Carlaw prepared a Final Report on the project for the Centre for Refugee Studies.
In light of renewed interest in refugee resettlement in Canada due to the crisis in Afghanistan, we are publicly posting the Report in the hope that it may be of use to other institutions: