McGill business students focus on helping Syrian refugees

Every semester, McGill University faculty lecturer Anita Nowak challenges her students to come up with projects for her social entrepreneurship and social innovation class based on a theme that she finds particularly timely and relevant.

For this semester, it was helping Syrian refugees integrate into Canadian society.

The result, she says, is an array of projects that are both creative and practical and, most importantly, display a terrific empathy for the plight of refugees fleeing war-torn countries for the safety of a country that presents new hurdles.

To date, Quebec has welcomed about 5,368 Syrian refugees (3,550 adults and 1,850 children), with a total of 7,300 still the goal for the end of 2016. 

Read full article: Montreal Gazette, 26 April, 2016