On May 25, Saturday, 2019, we held our first leadership training workshop for women with the topic – “Nurturing Women Leaders for Tomorrow’s Rapidly Changing Society”, sponsored by Community Standards & Neighbourhoods, City of Edmonton, the workshop achieved a great success. Over 40 people including volunteers and AHC’s staff participated in the training. Four successful…
On Saturday, April 27, 2019, AHC’s Learning English for Daily Life (LED) program held a graduation ceremony for its participants. This program runs in several locations throughout the city. This Program is designed to help adult newcomers to Canada fulfill their needs to overcome the language barrier so they feel comfortable and confident to communicate…
On Saturday, May 11, 2019, AHC held it’s 2nd annual Mother’s Day Tea event. The event saw 60 plus participants come out to enjoy various festivities including estheticians, wellness coaches, photographers, nutritionists, naturopaths, meditation and yoga facilitators. There was childcare provided on site and a clothing swap for the families. The purpose of the event…
On Friday, May 17, 2019 staff members of AHC were present at NorQuest college to support two AHC nominees for this year’s 4th annual Diversity Awards, presented by Diversity Magazine. AHC Executive Director, Aftab Khan and Settlement & Integration Manager, Suzana Dumo received awards under the Friends of Diversity Category. This category represents an Albertan…
On Saturday, May 4th EAC/AHC Artist in Residence Luciana Errugue hosted a spoken word session with fellow poets Brandon Wint, Liam P. Coady and K’alii. View images from the event below.
To create a welcome and fun learning environment as well as to facilitate our students’ cultural understanding, on March 28, the Adult Literacy and Skills Develop program held an “Intercultural Learning – Celebrate Spring”. Partnering with Immigrant Community Alberta Network Association (ICAN), AHC’s 7 classes from English, computer and math courses joined the celebration. Around…
On Thursday May 2nd. Women from the settlement team held a Mother’s Day celebration for the Syrian/Arabic clients at AHC. Mother’s Day is an important holiday everywhere. We wanted to do something special to honour mothers and their families who will be celebrating their Mother’s Day in Canada and for those who still remain in…
On Saturday, April 13 Luciana Erregue-Sacchi, EAC Artist in Residence at A4HC organized the multilingual reading event Reading as Place. Edmonton Poet Laureates Alice Major and Anna Marie Sewell were amongst the appreciative audience. Writers Yasser Abdel-Latif, Leilei Chen, Lisa Dublin, Mila Bongco, and Luciana herself read works in Arabic, Tagalog, Mandarin, Creole, and Spanish.…
On Saturday, April 6, EAC/AHC artist in residence Luciana Erregue hosted an art workshop for kids at AHC. The theme was Edmonton’s street art. Each child made a large piece of graffiti-inspired artwork to take home. Grafitti with its use of words and images is an excellent tool to teach early literacy. View the images…
On Thursday, March 28th, the Networking Empowerment of Women Program coordinated by Joelle Kacou and facilitated by Ninfa Castellanos, visited the Art Gallery of Alberta. There they met with Edmonton Art Council and AHC’s Artist in Residence Luciana Erregue-Sacchi, who works at the AGA. The gallery was packed and all sorts of events were taking…