✨A belated Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from Christie Refugee Welcome Centre ✨ Almost 60 residents came together for our end-of-year Christmas Dinner in late December. Dinner from our talented Food Services team included chicken and turkey, potatoes, stuffing, jambalaya, green beans, gravy and apple pie. A resident choir sang Christmas carols (we are […]
At the close of 2024, we had the honour of welcoming Linda Tripp back to Christie! Linda started World Vision Canada’s Refugee Program and established Christie Refugee Welcome Centre in Spring of 1989. There is so much history and so many stories here, over 35 years. We asked Linda a memory of Christie that has
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Most of us can remember the scenes from summer 2023. Dozens – sometimes up to 100- African asylum seekers sleeping outside in downtown Toronto night after night, after having been denied access to the City’s emergency shelter system. This was the result of a decision that came in November 2022, when the City of Toronto
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We are seeking a Children’s Music Program Worker to develop a curriculum to run a Music Literacy Program for in-house children ages 6-12 every Tuesday and Thursday evening from 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm. The primary focus of the program is offering support to children as they integrate into their new home in Canada by
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A warm thank you to @aircanada for their generous donation of $30,000 to support our Centre for Refugee Children! Air Canada’s support helps our Centre for Refugee Children hire a further two Child and Youth Settlement Counsellors who will work with unaccompanied and separated children and youth across Ontario. Did you know, every year a few hundred
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Our Children’s Program Summer Camp for kids aged 6-12 years comes to an end on August 28. We have loved making lemonade and salads, playing UNO, going on field trips and celebrating summer birthdays!
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RIDE for Refuge, our annual family-friendly bike + walk fundraising event that involves friends and supporters of Christie to start a team or join a team to support the refugee claimant families that we serve. We recently signed up 10 team captains at our World Refugee Day event and are looking for more participants. For
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Thank you to all who attended our World Refugee Day community event on June 20th to honour the courage and resiliency of refugees. Despite losing almost everything at no fault of their own and leaving everything behind, refugees are determined to rebuild their lives. To all our residents and former residents, we are in awe
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On March 31st, 2024 Christie concluded a 3-year Grow Grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation which funded the launch of our employment program. As part of the grant we had an external evaluation completed to determine the impact of the program. We’re very happy with the results and you can read it here: Christie Refugee
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Christie Refugee Welcome Centre endorses the Canadian Council for Refugees’ proposal for a national plan for refugee claimants. The plan notes, “Our country has the infrastructure, the know-how and the resources. With some key adjustments to the infrastructure in place and a proactive mindset, governments together with civil society can repurpose what already exists, redirect
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