Bob CollinsIt’s cold as all get-out, there’s snow on the ground in Minnesota, it’s only Nov. 12 and nobody is acting like this about it.
Maybe that’s on us.
A first snowfall for Eritrean children new to Canada. #NewcomersWelcome #WelcomeToCanada #RefugeesWelcome #privatesponsorship #BVOR pic.twitter.com/XaWTDGAxfg
— Rebecca Davies (@RebsD) November 10, 2018
Rebecca Davies posted the video on Twitter over the weekend to document the first time these kids had ever seen snow.
The family — a woman and four kids — was living in a refugee camp in Sudan until last Thursday.
Their mother is, and two other siblings. Mum fled the war and has been in a refugee camp in Sudan until… just last Thursday. Now their making their home in Toronto. x
— Rebecca Davies (@RebsD) November 12, 2018
Davies volunteers with the Ripple Refugee Project, a private refugee sponsor group in Toronto.
Since September, they’d been trying to raise the $25,000 to bring the family to Canada.
