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

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"There's no children in the world that deserve to 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.

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.