Ukrainian refugee students displaced by war receive warm welcome at Toronto Catholic school
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“A few weeks after the invasion began, people started to arrive in Canada,” said Swystun. “As people were filling out visas, we’d have calls from Poland or Germany and other countries saying, ‘Is there places to stay around your church? Because we’ve heard about your church, we heard about your school.'”
“A lot of our parishioners came escaping poverty … so we all know what it’s like to be resettled, what it is to not have all the things that everybody else has. So everybody in the community has gone through that at some point or somebody in their family has. So when someone in need appears at our doorstep, we all roll up our sleeves and make them welcome,” he said.
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