Roses For Refugees<\/a>.<\/p>\nThe organization\u2019s co-president Chantal Christian said half of the money raised at the fundraiser will go to Unicef and the rest will be donated to a local private sponsorship group that is helping a Syrian refugee family.<\/p>\n
\u201cRather than just focusing on the international relief, we want to also help people in our own community,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
The roses are being sold just in time for Valentine\u2019s Day and there will be plenty of red ones available along with other assorted colours.<\/p>\n
They sell for $3 each, six for $15 or a dozen for $30.<\/p>\n
Unicef Brock will have a table set up in A-block of Mackenzie Chown starting at 10 a.m. on Feb. 12. They\u2019ll be there until the roses, bought with a donation from the Brock University Students\u2019 Union, are sold out.<\/p>\n
Emiko and Christian said the group hopes to raise $1,000. They are confident the Brock community will support the fundraiser.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe usually sell out,\u201d Christian said. \u201cA lot of times Brock staff and students come and just donate money and don\u2019t even take a rose.\u201d
\nThe group wanted to raise $3,000 during the 2015-16 school year.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ve far surpassed that already, raising $8,000 in November when Emiko and three other members \u2014 Patrick Foster, Jad Nasser and on the last day of the three-day journey Stephanie Mannella \u2014 walked from Brock to Toronto.<\/p>\n
That fundraising effort raised $4,000 and the government matched the funds. All of the money went to Unicef Canada\u2019s campaign to help in the refugee crisis.<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of the money we are fundraising is going to refugee camps in Jordan and the Middle East,\u201d Christian said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Nigeria Emiko has witnessed the work Unicef does around the world.
\nThe Brock University international student from Nigeria often saw Unicef volunteers handing out medical supplies, giving vaccinations and providing educational materials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":37587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37586"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37586"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37586\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37590,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37586\/revisions\/37590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}