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June is World Refugee Awareness Month

and we have a lot to celebrate! Spring has Sprung and our Garden is Sprouting! Last year we launched our first community garden and we were so excited to see some of the plants have returned on their own. Carol has already been busy helping our children and families learn [...]

2021-06-01T09:42:40-04:00May 31st, 2021|Uncategorized|

A Glimpse Into our 2020 Annual Report

This year our community rallied together to support Christie and our families in some pretty incredible ways! Our year started with the same shock as everyone else: "It was a Wednesday in March 2020 when we realized that everything we do at Christie had to change because a new unknown [...]

2021-05-04T22:17:16-04:00May 4th, 2021|Uncategorized|

Introducing the Centre for Refugee Children

This is Steve Meagher and this is how you'll usually find him, doing whatever it takes to serve our clients. Steve is leaving his position as Shelter Manager at Christie to launch an exciting pilot project:  The Centre for Refugee Children. We sat down with Steve so he could tell you more about this ground-breaking [...]

2021-06-06T09:44:07-04:00March 10th, 2021|Uncategorized|

The doctors keeping us safe are named Jim, Meb and Paz

Doctors like Family   During the last month the management team at Christie developed and implemented a plan to manage Covid-19. They couldn't have done it without the support of the doctors who staff our onsite clinic. Did you know we have a medical clinic onsite?  Our Doctors are Dr Meb, [...]

2021-05-04T21:52:24-04:00April 20th, 2020|Uncategorized|

Let’s Celebrate Together on World Refugee Day

You're invited! June 20th, 2019 is our second annual celebration of World Refugee Day. Join us in celebrating the resilience of refugees and the enormous positive contribution they make to our community. We stand #withrefugees!   On World Refugee Day, held every year on June 20th, the United Nations commemorates [...]

2021-05-04T21:46:24-04:00June 4th, 2019|Uncategorized|

World Refugee Day 2019

Come celebrate World Refugee Day with us! We would like to invite you to a special event that we are holding on the first day of summer, Thursday, June 20th. We want to mark World Refugee Day with an event that is part open house and part neighbourhood party! We [...]

2021-05-04T21:47:46-04:00April 24th, 2019|Announcement, Events, Supporters|

Donation Celebration

We met our goal! Our winter clothing drive was an enormous success. We are grateful for your generous donations. The first two months of this year have been snowy and COLD! Our cupboards are well stocked, and we've had all of the shapes and sizes we need to outfit our [...]

2021-05-04T21:48:52-04:00February 21st, 2019|Announcement, Supporters|
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