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Windsor Park group makes blankets for Syrian refugees

A group of women in Winnipeg's francophone community is making warm blankets for Syrian refugees.

Volunteers at Saints-Martyrs-Canadiens parish crafts blankets for babies, children

A volunteer handles a pile of handmade blankets at Saints-Martyrs-Canadiens parish in St. Boniface on Thursday. (CBC)

A group of women in Winnipeg's francophone community is making warm blankets forSyrian refugees.

Volunteers gathered at Saints-Martyrs-Canadiens parish in Windsor Parkon Thursday with fabric, scissors and sewing machines to make a set of homemade blankets for babies and children.

"There's no children in the world that deserveto be not welcome or mistreated or left in refugee camps, and to me that's the spirit of this project the warmth, the kindness," said Cecile Berard, who spearheaded the project.

Cecile Berard, who spearheaded the blanket project, says she wants to make sure refugee children and families can feel warmth and kindness from the people giving them. (CBC)
Berard said next week, the completed set of blankets will be given to a local school, which will distribute them to refugees.

"We wanted to do more than just give them a blanket. We wanted to have something that's warm, so that they can feel the warmth, the kindness of the people that are welcoming them in their new country," she said.