Education For All! Canada's One of a Kind Student Refugee Program

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Over the past 40 years, the Student Refugee Program has offered post-secondary education to over 2000 incoming refugees, the only youth-to-youth resettlement program worldwide. Libby talks with the co-chairs of the U of Manitoba’s WUSC Local Committee Carly and Ameen at Les Saj Middle Eastern restaurant, over shawarmas and fries. 

  • For more information about World University Services of Canada (aka WUSC): https://wusc.ca 
  • For tickets to the March 7, 2020 event on forced migration, click here
  • To donate to the U of Manitoba WUSC Local Committee, click here (WUSC Student Refugee Sponsorship Endowment)
  • Follow WUSC on Facebook, @WUSCUofM, or on instagram, @uofm.wusc