Cdn Muslims Donate $250,000 To Rebuild Fort McMurray

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To mark this year's Eid al-Fitr, the July 6 celebration concluding the fasting month of Ramadan, a Canadian Muslim charity is giving $250,000 to the people of fire-ravaged Fort McMurray.



The Toronto-based International Development and Relief Foundation, founded by in 1984, was named one of Canada's top 25 charities by the Financial Post for their efforts to "provide humanitarian aid and sustainable development programs based on the Islamic principles of human dignity, self reliance and social justice."



The organization announced that their quarter-million dollar Eid gift — raised during a pre-Canada Day dinner in Markham, Ont. attended by local MP and Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship minister John McCallum — would go to Habitat for Humanity to rebuild and repair Fort McMurray homes for those with minimal or no insurance coverage.



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Syrian refugees living in Canada for a matter of months are among those raising funds to support victims of the Fort McMurray fire.



Morhaf Aldiri, who arrived in Edmonton in February, said Albertans have been so kind to him that he simply had to do something to give back.



"When I came it was very difficult," said Aldiri. "Another country, I don't know anything, any people, but lots of people help and help me, so it's very nice."



Alidiri, 25, knows what it's like to lose everything.



He and his family had to run for their lives when their house was hit by a bomb in their home city of Daraa, Syria, in 2013.



He then spent time living in a refugee camp in Jordan, alongside thousands of others, before coming to Canada.



"I know the pain that the Fort McMurray people feel," he said through a translator. "I lost my home as well in Syria, and it really touched me."



He added many Syrian families feel the same way.



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A group of Syrian refugees in Fredericton has donated money to the Red Cross for victims of the fire in Fort McMurray.



Anas Khaddam says the images of burning houses and neighbourhoods in Alberta this month hit close to home.



"We know what the fires mean," he said.



Khaddam and his wife Assil al Ammouri said they and other refugees want to help in any way they can.



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[RW]

As for the OP - that's a kind and generous gesture.