Volunteers are important to us!

MOSAIC’s volunteers are ordinary people, inspired to do extraordinary things! Our volunteers work to create a welcoming community for immigrants and refugees and help them in the settlement process. Each year, between 175 and 200 people get involved in volunteer activities at MOSAIC through our Community Volunteer Program. Some are newcomers to Canada, while others are second, third or even fourth generation Canadians! They are different people from different places, united in their desire to get involved in and create a positive impact on the lives of complete strangers.

Our main volunteer program, the Kindness Club, is a hosting program that assists newcomers in the settlement process, in making friends and in becoming involved in the community. There are also many other volunteer opportunities within the three MOSAIC sites. Volunteers provide administrative support, give one-on-one assistance to community members and work alongside program staff.

We also host Volunteering in Canada workshops and refer volunteers from our program to a wide variety of community organizations, in order to help in such areas as health, housing, day care, technology and environmental protection.

We truly value the work volunteers do and the contributions they make, whether they have a lot of time to give or just a little.

We have a volunteer program because:

• We believe community members can benefit from the volunteering experience.
• We believe community members possess unique skills, knowledge and experience that can be shared with others, and volunteering creates an opportunity for them to do this.
• We believe newcomers and all community members are entitled to participate in community organizations, at various levels of decision-making and in the hands-on work we do.

MOSAIC
1720 Grant St., 2^nd Floor • Vancouver, B.C. V5L 2Y7
Tel.: (604) 254-9626 • Fax: (604) 254-3932
E-mail: mosaic@mosaicbc.com

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