Canada, American refugees impacted by budget cuts [Video]

BUFFALO, N.Y. — Facing funding cuts from the federal government, several local not-for-profits are asking for donations to help to continue their work assisting refugees.

Although some of the groups provide assistance to migrants and asylum seekers, they’re asking for your help to specifically assist refugees, especially those who just arrived and who they say have been suddenly left in a lurch.

“Imagine for a moment what it’s like to be placed into a country that you’ve never been before, where you don’t know how to find food or how to use the bus or how to find a job or how to get your kids in school and start your life again,” said Jennifer Rizzo-Choi, executive director of the International Institute of Buffalo, as part of the pitch for the The Refugee Partnership’s Crisis Response Fund, which seeks to raise $1.5 million in …