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…
On Friday, March 1st, Samya Hasan, Executive Director of the Council of Agencies Serving South Asians (CASSA) led a presentation about their Intercultural Collaborative project to foster anti-racism and anti-discrimination in communities around Toronto. AHC alongside several other local community-serving agencies were able to engage in a discussion with Samya in order to learn more about…
Action for Healthy Communities is pleased to be part of the #internationalwomensday movement around the globe. AHC has a number of programs and initiatives soley focused on the development of women. Listed below are some of the ways in which AHC is working to promote this year’s theme #balanceforbetter. Networking and Empowerment for Women AHC…
Luciana was selected the 2019 Artist in Residence through a partnership between AHC and the Edmonton Arts Council. Luciana is a Canadian-Argentinian multilingual poet (Spanish-English-Italian), art historian (MA 2016, University of Alberta), and educator. She will be with us as an Artist in Residence until October 1st, 2019. Luciana is joining our team to support…
The Connecting Us All Collaborative met for their first meeting of 2019 at AHC on Tuesday, January 15, 2019. The collaborative would like to mentor and support a youth planning committee to host a 1.5 day Anti-Racism Youth Forum targeted at newcomer youth bringing together 3 levels of government, service agencies, ethnocultural community organization leaders…
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…
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…
Benaiah says the ECALA funded Entrepreneurial Training Program has been a great experience. Read his testimonial below. “When I attend class, I feel it was designed for me personally. I have learned so much.” As a newcomer from South Sudan 17 years ago, Benaiah felt trapped working many dead ends and tough jobs which left him…
On Saturday, July 21st, the Business Program team held its Graduation ceremony to celebrate the achievements of the program participants who are enrolled in three different initiatives. The event was well organized and attended by people from all walks of life including three MLAs, a city councilor, representative of various organizations, funders, partners and participants from three groups with…
Mohamed made many mistakes when he started his cleaning business 10 years ago. He says he wishes he had the benefit of the Entrepreneur Program that he has just completed two weeks ago. He feels he would have got the information and tools to set up his own business without the missteps and pitfalls as…