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INTERVIEW: Raising awareness for refugees

By Alexandria Lee, Noella Ovid and Noushin Ziafati, —

What’s it like to be a refugee from Iraq or Syria? A group of students from the Assyrian Chaldean Syriac Student Union are trying to find out. They are camping out at Ryerson, raising funds as a part of their annual charity event, called “Life of a Mesopotamian Refugee”. Rosemary Yachouh, the president of the ACSSU joined Toronto Today’s Noushin Ziafati in studio.

Alexandria Lee, Noella Ovid and Noushin Ziafati, third-year journalism students produced this item for Toronto Today as part of their Reporting for TV Workshop class.

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