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The Tesfaye family fled Myanmar - help them rebuild in Toronto

Help a family of 5 start their new life in Toronto: furniture, rent deposit and language classes.

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Lydia K. Hoffman
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Toronto
My family left Myanmar 6 months ago after the conflict closed our school and clinic. We spent time in a camp before we were resettled in Toronto. We're a family of six and we're safe, but we arrived with very little. Our resettlement agency has provided 4 months of rent, and that support ends in June. I was an engineer in Myanmar, and I'm studying the language every evening. Our daughter and son have started school and are doing well. We want nothing more than to be self-sufficient. This fund will help us through the first six months. Funds are managed by a local church-run settlement group, a registered organization, which pays the landlord and suppliers on the family's behalf. Where the $4,100 goes: • Phone and internet for school and job search: $290 • Language classes and bus passes: $590 • Winter clothing and school supplies: $670 • Rent deposit and first month: $2,550 I'll pay this kindness forward the moment I'm able to. - Lydia
#refugees#resettlement#family

Updates from Lydia

  1. Thank you all. We're at 57% now ($2,336). I'm honestly stunned. we've booked the dates and paid the deposit.

  2. Good news. Because of your gifts ($2,306 in total) I made the first payment toward language classes and bus passes. Still a way to go but it feels less lonely.

  3. We're at 18% thanks to 26 of you. we've booked the dates and paid the deposit. More news soon.

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  • Jean Ethan Roux 🇫🇷 · $20

    “Hope this helps. Saw your post and had to give. - Reims”

  • Arthur Samuel Andrade 🇧🇷 · $25
  • Shazia Samina Kazmi 🇵🇰 · $20
  • Russell Walker 🇬🇧 · $25

    “Happy to help. Thought of Lydia all day after reading this. - Leeds”

  • Rotimi Kunle Tijani 🇳🇬 · $50

    “Hope the June deadline works out. - Port Harcourt”

  • Damilola Obiageli Idowu 🇳🇬 · $10

    “Thought of Lydia all day after reading this. - Epe”

  • Anonymous 🇺🇸 · $46
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  • Bella D. Padilla 🇺🇸 · $10

    “Stay strong. I'm in Tampa, thinking of you. - Tampa”

  • Ha-eun Min-ji Jeon 🇺🇸 · $100
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  • Phương Lan Trinh 🇻🇳 · $16
  • Liliana Gilbert 🇺🇸 · $50
  • Everett T. Gordon 🇺🇸 · $50
  • Ritu M. Bajwa 🇮🇳 · $200

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  • Rafael G. Gutiérrez

    good luck. Hope you get there. This is the second need I've supported on here and the first that made me cry. Love from Patras.

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