The British Columbia government is set to more than quadruple its funding for newcomer services in the province, the government announced Wednesday.
Immigrant- and refugee-settlement organizations praised the move, which will increase funding for their services to nearly $26 million a year, up from the current $6 million.
“This is good news — there are now robust dollars around this,” Neelam Sahota, CEO of Surrey, B.C.-based DIVERSEcity Community Resources Society, said in an interview Wednesday.
“We’re able to put programs in place.”
For one newcomer from Sri Lanka who participated in the non-profit’s settlement programs, services like DIVERSEcity’s “made a huge impact” in her life.
Rukshani Jayasinghe came with her spouse and five-year-old son to Surrey,
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