Newcomers, non-profits praise major funding boost for migration settlement services

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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