On Saturday, December 22, 2018, AHC hosted an indoor Youth Soccer Tournament at Commonwealth Stadium Recreation Centre. We had over than 70 youth participate, represented by 12 teams from different communities. The youth enjoyed playing their favourite sport, shared a snack together, made new friends, and shared their experiences. Additionally, some teachers from different schools joined…
On Saturday, December 15, 2018 AHC held its Annual Winter Celebration (Year-end celebration) event. This year the event saw more than 300 guests, including (volunteers, community partners, clients and their families) gather at the St. John’s Cultural Centre to recognize their efforts of our volunteers and community partners throughout the year, while also partaking in…
The AHC Syrian team has been coordinating an Arabic Women Networking & Conversation circle over the last several weeks. On this particular occasion, in addition to networking and sharing their stories, the women also received hand-made quilted blankets from southern Alberta courtesy of Lynn Sutankay and her family. The ladies appreciated the kind gesture of the…
“Adult Literacy and Skill Development (ALSD) Program held its annual major event – “2018 Celebration of Learning” on Thursday, December 6, 2018 at AHC. Aftab Khan, AHC’s Executive Director, delivered a welcome speech to the audience. As the distinguished guest, Ms. Debbie Clack, Executive Director of Edmonton Community Adult Learning Association (ECALA), one of AHC’s funders,…
The children of the Healthy Active Community Kids (HACK) program exercised their compassion last week by making care packages for the homeless. The children delivered the packages on December 4th, 2018. Each care package included socks, gloves, toothpaste, toothbrush, soap, hand warmers candy cane and a note/picture that was done by the child packing the bag.…
On Thursday, Nov. 22, 2018, the Adult Literacy and Skills Development Program held a leadership training workshop on “Fund Development through Innovative Approaches”. The facilitator was Ms. Debbie Hagman, Community Development Officer, from Alberta Culture and Tourism. The topic attracted around 30 participants from different cultural backgrounds to attend the training. They reported that the…
Our Social Media Fair leadership training event was held on Saturday, October 27th. The workshop had 70 participants with the workshop split into four sections: 1. Introduction to Social Media (Community Hall) – Tracy Folorunsho-Barry, President & CEO, GROW 2. Leadership Training Workshop: Digital & Social Media: Strategy & Tactics in Management- Tracy Folorunsho-Barry, President & CEO, GROW 3. Social Media Learning Workshop (Computer Labs)- Mohamed…
On September 27th AHC invites its 2018 Tax Clinic volunteers to its monthly staff potluck and presented them certificates of appreciation. Every year during tax season AHC relies on volunteers for its free community tax clinic which runs between January and April every year and served over 1650 clients this year. If you are interested…
On Saturday, October 6th, AHC took its clients and their families on a field trip the the Edmonton Corn Maze. View the images below.
On Thursday, October 18, Dr. Bashair Ibrahim discussed the issues and challenges being now in a western country. Refugees face not only challenges related to renegotiating their status and roles within the family but also a range of challenges which prevent them from successfully adjusting to and integrating into a new country, thus exacerbating their…