by CCI Ottawa | Jun 22, 2017 | News
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada has produced a wonderful and heart-warming video featuring several refugee families. Some of the people you see in the video were clients of the Catholic Centre for Immigrants. The video was produced for World Refugee...
by CCI Ottawa | Jun 21, 2017 | News
As with many newcomers to Ottawa, Majid Al Yamoory, turned to the Catholic Centre for Immigrants’ Matching Program for help in adapting and integrating into to his new life. Through this program, the 74 year-old civil engineer from Iraq was paired with Bruce Grant and...
by CCI Ottawa | Jun 14, 2017 | News
When Cleo was a little girl in Taiwan, she dreamed of being a doctor. She studied hard and one day realized her dream. But when she moved to Canada with her husband, that dream almost died … until she connected with the Catholic Centre for Immigrants. Thanks to our...
by CCI Ottawa | Jun 7, 2017 | News
It was a packed house at the Catholic Centre for Immigrants when two Liberal MPPs stopped by to talk about the impact a new minimum wage will have on immigrants in Ottawa. Yasir Naqvi and John Fraser, along with CCI Ottawa Executive Director Carl Nicholson, spoke to a...
by CCI Ottawa | May 12, 2017 | News
Everyone can benefit from a helping hand now and again. Sometimes, that helping hand takes the form of a mentor. A mentor is someone who has been there before you and can guide you through that next stage of your life or career. Many businesses uses mentoring as a way...