INVITATION TO THE MEDIA - Press Conference - Urgent appeal for public donations for asylum seekers

MONTREAL, June 18, 2018 /CNW/ -

WHAT:	press conference for the launch of Opération d'accueil Bordeaux-Cartierville / Urgent appeal for public donations for asylum seekers
WHEN:	Tuesday, June 19, 2018, from 2 pm to 3 pm
WHERE:	at La Corbeille Bordeaux-Cartierville, 5080 Dudemaine Street, Montreal

Details:

Families of asylum seekers are in an extremely precarious situation.

Many families newly arrived in Canada, mainly asylum seekers, settled in the Bordeaux-Cartierville district of Montreal, live in a very difficult situation. Most of them have very young children, no diapers, no formula, no furniture, no financial resources and, of course, no network to support them.

The Bordeaux-Cartierville field workers, particularly the CIUSSS nurses from the North-Island of Montreal, say they have never seen such a situation, both in terms of the number of families and the seriousness of the cases.

The Committee for the Reception of Newcomers of Bordeaux-Cartierville, led by the Bordeaux-Cartierville Neighborhood Table, CLIC, decided to launch an urgent appeal for donations from the public and an operation to redistribute these donations to these poor families.

SOURCE Comité pour l'accueil des nouveaux arrivants dans Bordeaux-Cartierville

Nathalie Fortin, general manager, CLIC de Bordeaux-Cartierville, [phone] / [phone], [email protected] / www.clic-bc.ca; Donald Boisvert, general manager, La Corbeille Bordeaux-Cartierville, [phone] / [phone], [email protected] / www.lacorbeillebc.org