The Mennonite New Life Centre, together with a coalition of sixteen organizations engaged with the Latin American community, have been working over the last year to promote civic participation and shared advocacy priorities.
This year, in preparation for the provincial elections, we are holding a series of Community mapping (July 30 and Aug 3) to talk about issues of employment and income in the Latin American community – as a way of engaging the community in defining our questions and policy recommendations to provincial candidates.
Sessions are held in Spanish, and are open to Spanish speaking residents between Dufferin St – Weston Rd and Steeles Av – Lawrence St.
The dates for the next consultations are the following:
Saturday July 30, 2011
Where: Centro para Gente de Habla Hispana
at: 2141 Jane Street (Jane & Wilson)
Time: 10:00 am – 1:00 pm
Where: Iglesia San Felipe Neri
at: 2100 Jane Street. (Jane & Wilson)
Time: 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Wednesday August 3, 2011
Where: Centro para Gente de Habla Hispana
at: 2141 Jane Street (Jane & Wilson)
Time: 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm
For more information or to register please write to Adriana Salazar or call (416) 699-4527 x 229.
The Mennonite New Life Centre is a place of welcome, friendship and community, where newcomers and neighbors gather to support each other, learn from each other and take action together for a more just and compassionate society.
We are currently looking for volunteers to come on board and help us put in practice fresh ideas for our programming!!!
We are looking for a Choreographer or dancer to join our youth theater group, and combine dance with popular theater and help youth express themselves through dance, rhythm , corporal expression.
Our seniors group is in need of a ESL tutor for seniors, to help to teach basic-intermediate English to Spanish speaking seniors. Seniors will develop and enhance their English skills in a weekly session with a tutor.
The New Life Centre wants to promote a healthy lifestyle among newcomers to Canada; with this aim we are forming a soccer team with newcomer youth. The idea is to gather and play soccer, promote friendship, develop leadership and teamwork skills while practicing the King of the sports!!! We are looking for an energetic Soccer coach to train and lead our youth to win.
And finally, we want to increase our roster of volunteer Community interpreters. Our volunteer interpreters have been providing high quality interpreter services to newcomers to Canada with basic command of English, breaking the sense of isolation newcomer experience as a result of language barriers. This is one of the most popular programs in the centre, run entirely by volunteers.
If you are interested in this position, or want to know more about volunteer opportunities at the MNLCT send your resume or your comments to Gabriela Martinez or call (647) 776-2057 x 303.
If you have been recently laid off or simply want to know more about your rights at work, benefits, opportunities for retraining, and how Employment Insurance (EI) works, this session will help you better understand the legislation and understand your rights, know about benefits and programs you may be entitled to enroll.
Where: 2737 Keele St. Unit # 9.
When: Saturday July 23, 2011
Time: 9:00 am to 12:00 pm
For more information contact Luis Alberto Mata or call (647) 776-2057 x 305
