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Getting ready for the #RideForRefuge isn't just about stretching your legs — it's about stretching your heart. 💪✨ This week, we challenge you to take that first step – join us and invite others to join the journey. 👉 Tag a friend you want on your team and let's ride/walk together for refugees!#whatmovesyou

Every great journey starts with a single step. For some, it’s a step towards safety. For us here at Christie, it’s a step towards supporting them. Want to support Christie and the work we do? Join our journey towards the Ride for Refuge. We’ll be biking and walking in support of refugees on Sat Oct 4. Register now (link in bio) #Rideforrefugee #refugeeswelcome #TogetherBeStronger

this summer at Christie ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️ 1. Babies growing and thriving. Did you know there are 6 (!) babies under 6 months currently living at Christie?! 2. Small hands helping to set up our community garden. Thank you to the Jackman Foundation for funding this project. 3. Our annual staff retreat to Niagara Falls. 4. Some of the incredible staff that make up Christie Refugee Welcome Centre. 5. Winding down our Tuesday After-School Friendship program with Palmerston Public School. 6. Cake and fresh berries to celebrate the six women graduating from our in-house employment training program, Career Entry Pathway. 7. Learning about and recognizing Canada Day together for the 1st time. 8. Our Shelter Manager launching our Anti-Black Racism Committee to residents during July’s resident meeting. 9. Dance and food for our annual Multicultural Day celebrations. #refugeeshelter #refugeesintoronto #refugeeswelcome #refugeeswelcomehere

We celebrated World Refugee Day last week. Thanks to YOU - our supporters, friends, donors, neighbours, current Christie residents and former Christie residents, our World Refugee Day street party was a massive success with over 100 of you joining us to show solidarity with refugees. Solidarity with refugees is about using our power and resources to support, provide and ACT on behalf of refugees when the systems we exist in do not. You help us show this solidarity on World Refugee Day, and everyday. #worldrefugeeday2025 #worldrefugeeday

JOIN US! Next Thursday June 19, for our annual street party. All welcome. Let’s celebrate the rights and contributions of refugees, together.

Thank you to the Air Canada Foundation @fondation_aircanada_foundation for their generous donation of $10,000 to the Centre for Refugee Children @crcrefugee - a second donation from the Air Canada Foundation to CRC for their important work supporting unaccompanied children/youth who arrive to Canada without their families. We are grateful! . . . #refugeechildren #refugeeyouth #refugeeswelcome

We started this 💫Friendship Program💫 together with the incredible educators at our local public school. We started this program after Christie children bravely disclosed they were having a hard time making friends in their new classrooms. Once per month, Christie children and their classmates are invited to attend an extra after-school program at their school’s gym. Kids play cooperative games, make crafts and play board games together. The goal? Foster stronger friendships and connections among Christie students and their classmates and increase students’ sense of belonging and community. Yesterday, we all made slime together! We hope this program nourishes a few new friendship and lots of fun along the way. . . . #refugeechildren #tdsb #schoolsintoronto #afterschoolprogram #afterschoolactivities #makingfriends

Women’s Wellness Program. How it started (kick-off for the 2025 cohort back in March alongside International Women’s Day celebration!) 💜💜💜

🌟Some of our 2025 cohort of Women’s Wellness Program graduates, pictured alongside staff today🌟 For women living at Christie, our on-site Women’s Wellness Program is a six-week series of health and well-being workshops covering topics including parenting, art therapy, preventative healthcare, and stress management. Big thank you to our Child and Family Worker, shelter support staff, Dr.Paz and all of our other organizers and guest speakers involved in ensuring the program’s continued success for this cohort. Want to offer a workshop, gift or other supplies to our Women’s Wellness Program? Get in touch with us! . . . #refugeewomen #refugeewomenrising #womenswellness #womensprogramsintoronto