As funding pours into Fort McMurray, Canada, to assist evacuees who are fleeing blazes in the town, Syrian refugees are stepping in to do their part.

Naser Nader, a Syrian refugee who lives in Calgary, a few hundred miles south of the wildfires, posted about them in a refugee support group on Facebook. He called on members of the group to donate to the relief effort. Nader explained that he and fellow refugee Rita Khanchet Kallas wanted to help because the Canadian community had welcomed them during their time of need.

"A lot of people are puzzled by this, that we, as Syrian refugees, could do something like this," he said. "Well, we'd like to tell the people who thought this way that we are humans. We love peace and happiness for all. So surely we'd want this for people who helped us and brought us so much happiness and are now in need."

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