• Do you want to meet other seniors from your own country and join in recreational activities?


• Do you want to be more active in your community?


• Do you want to study English?

• Do you want more information about the kind of social services that are available for immigrant seniors?


• Would you like someone to visit you at home?


• Do you have any concerns about housing, health, or employment?


• Do you want to work together to explore some solutions?

Organizing for Change:  A Project Designed to Help Immigrant Seniors Help Themselves

• To provide training and capacity-building to existing immigrant seniors organizations;


• To identify, contact and bring together isolated immigrant seniors;


• To bring together individual seniors, immigrant senior organizations and mainstream groups for mutual support and sharing of resources;


• To develop concrete plans designed to address the various needs of immigrant seniors;


• To train volunteer community workers to facilitate and sustain this process.

Mennonite Centre for Newcomers
also offers the following programs and services:

Community Services

• Settlement Services


• Community Development


• Orientation/Information Sessions


• Edmonton Centre for Survivors of Torture and Trauma

• Employment and Career Counseling


• Job Search Techniques Class


• Work Experience Program


• Micro-Business Program

• Language Instruction for Newcomers to Canada


• Drop-in Conversational English Classes


• Citizenship Classes