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Summer Camp Prepares Refugee Youth for School

Summer Camp Prepares Refugee Youth for School

Some are shy and others are more outgoing.  Most have only had a few months of school to start learning English before the summer holidays began.  Many are still adjusting to a new city and culture.  So these teens - refugees from Syria, immigrants from...

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Picnic on the beach helps connect communities

Picnic on the beach helps connect communities

CCI Ottawa's Community Connections Team organized a Potluck picnic at Petrie Island with clients, volunteers and friends.  It was a perfect day to make new friends, share some food and mark the end of the summer. Thanks to everyone who joined us to enjoy a...

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South Asian community role model

South Asian community role model

Photo: Rukhsana Ahmed, Associate Professor at the University of Ottawa presents certificate to Rayhan Pitigala.  Rayhan was one of the winners of a writing contest launched by the Ottawa Multicultural Media Initiative (OMMI). My community role model is much closer to...

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Chinese community role model

Chinese community role model

Photo of Baozhen Liu, winner of a writing contest on community role models  I’ve known her since I came to Canada two years ago. Sharing interests in common, we became dear friends. However, I am deeply impressed by her contributing spirit since she has become the...

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Welcoming Ottawa Week

Welcoming Ottawa Week

Welcoming Ottawa Week (WOW) is an annual, week-long series of dialogues, cultural and celebratory events, sports activities, documentary screenings, and other fun events designed to convey the genuine welcome and hospitality of Ottawans to newcomers, while providing...

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Community Cup Event

Community Cup Event

Around forty volunteers gathered for an orientation session with CCI Ottawa.  The orientation session included icebreakers and activities to help volunteers to get to know each other and learn about the upcoming multicultural Community Cup event that will take place...

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Practicing English through Singing

Practicing English through Singing

In a big bright room on a Saturday morning, a group of adults and children are standing in a circle, breathing to a count of five… “Inhale….hold… exhale….”  Some are recent immigrants and refugees, some are volunteers, and all of them are warming up, getting ready to...

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