by CCI Ottawa | Sep 25, 2018 | News
By Shabana Ansari When Mimi Do moved to Canada from her native Vietnam a little more than a year ago, she was looking forward to continuing her career in digital marketing and having an exciting social life. “I had stars in my eyes and it felt like I could do anything...
by CCI Ottawa | Aug 7, 2018 | News
In a recent column, Le Droit’s Patrick Duquette called a Donald St. apartment complex, where many Syrians live, a ghetto and a ticking time bomb. (Story here) He reports that Syrians are unhappy with the pace of settlement, the lack of job opportunities, language...
by CCI Ottawa | Jul 27, 2018 | News
Justine Nkurunziza is an extraordinary woman. In her native Burundi, she was a human rights defender, especially for the rights of women and children. She also worked for Action Aid International in Burundi, before coming to Ottawa as a refugee in 2016. Justine has...
by CCI Ottawa | Jul 6, 2018 | News
“When I arrived in the city in 2016 to study business at the University of Ottawa, I felt like I had landed in the middle of nowhere and was very lonely,” says Seka Wilfried Adon, an international student from the Ivory Coast. “I only had a few friends in...
by CCI Ottawa | Jul 4, 2018 | News
By Claudine Nduwimana “Art is my talent and I came to CCI to give the most valuable treasure I have — art skills, my talent.” Jennifer Macklem is an art professor at the University of Ottawa. She joined the Catholic Centre for Immigrants (CCI) in...
by CCI Ottawa | Jun 28, 2018 | News
By Claudine Nduwimana A little more than two years ago, Canada welcomed 25,000 Syrian refugees over the course of three months. Thousands of those refugees were children and teens who brought a new culture to our local schools. For many, it was the first opportunity...
