OCRA is back at the Great Glebe Garage Sale for our third annual fundraiser! Help bring hope to a refugee and reunite refugee families! Your support will help us reunite Syrian refugees with their families that OCRA helped settle in 2016. Find OCRA at 166 and 164 Glebe Avenue (corner of Lyon) on May [...]
Sometimes, it takes more than a village. Ali* is 16 years old and he hasn’t seen his parents or siblings in three years. In 2016, Ali’s mother Meryam and her three girls fled their home in the Afar region of Eritrea, joining many Afar people who had fled from Eritrea. They joined Idris, Ali’s father, [...]
Opening Doors Film & Fun for Family Reunification Join OCRA for an evening of film, games, music, great food and conversation with friends and neighbours in one of Ottawa’s newest independent breweries! May 4, 2019 • 5pm - midnight Beyond the Pale Brewing Company • 250 City Centre Ave, Unit 106 Tickets available now! $75 [...]
This is the story of Khaled Agha, who came to Canada as a refugee in 2016 when he was 18 years old. He and his family are now settled in Ottawa, and he is hard at work at college, studying English. Please share and help us in our effort to sponsor Khaled’s uncle, aunt and cousins, [...]
One of the most important things in life is family, and it can be very difficult to live apart from them. The feeling that you're left out of a family event, forgetting what your brother or sister or their children look like. I used to feel miserable and sad when I’d hear family members [...]
Get your tickets now for OCRA's fundraising dinner on Friday, November 24, 2017 at 7 p.m. Your $60 will help us sponsor refugee families, and you'll enjoy a delicious and authentic Syrian meal prepared by Yasmin, a catering company started by one of OCRA's very own settled refugees! There will be raffles, silent auctions [...]
OCRA is excited for Canada Day! Watch some of our families share birthday wishes and their favourite things about Canada. See the video here or watch and share it on facebook. Help us bring more families to Canada - Donate Now.
OCRA will be selling at this year’s GGGS! Stop by and get some bargains for a great cause! We will be set up at 164 and 166 Glebe Ave. (corner of Lyon St.). Proceeds will go to our efforts to help privately sponsor close relatives of our settled families who continue to live in vulnerable [...]
OCRA 2.0 is our ongoing effort to help our refugee families and to promote refugee settlement. The single most important issue that our refugee families have identified, over and over again, is the plight of their close family members who were left behind and are living in vulnerable circumstances in Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey and Iraq. [...]
We want to shout out a huge THANK YOU to all of the donors and volunteers involved in our 2016 settlement effort. What an amazing accomplishment by community members joining together in common cause, and with such Wissam Agha enthusiasm and commitment! So many gave so much of their time and skill, and [...]
