UK community refugee sponsorship scheme resettled just 2 Syrian families in 6mos since launch
from RT.com:
Only two Syrian families have been resettled by the UK government’s community refugee sponsorship program half a year since the plan was adopted by Britain’s home secretary and the archbishop of Canterbury.
The charity group Open Society Foundations has slammed the scheme as ineffective and lost in red tape, saying there were “dozens of community groups ready and willing to take the burden for resettling refugees off the government’s shoulders, but their applications have been stuck in a queue for six months.”
The organization warned that the government was “squandering the resources of hundreds of volunteers happy to help,” as cited by the Guardian.
The group concluded that over 13,000 Syrian refugees have been resettled in Canada through a similar program since November of 2015, and urged the UK to act now, at the “right moment to capture this enthusiasm.”
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