Together Project makes change in three interconnected ways: building newcomer social connections, supporting newcomer integration priorities, and amplifying community involvement in newcomer integration in Canada.
We match Welcome Groups of 3-5 volunteers with newly arrived refugees for social and integration support. We are delivering the Welcome Group Program in Mississauga, Moncton, Toronto, Vancouver, and Winnipeg.
We share volunteer resources to help support newcomer households in our Welcome Group Program.
Together Project supports our work through evidence-based program evaluation and research to inform and improve our impact.
As a Welcome Group Program volunteer, Idalia and her fellow members threw a surprise party for their matched newcomer! As a former newcomer herself, she found that volunteering was a special way to give back.
“As a team, we’ve learned and grown together, and our match has taught us invaluable lessons about life, resilience, and hope.”
Read Idalia’s interview here!
Meet Welcome Group Program volunteer and United Way Greater Toronto employee Fatemeh! After she arrived in Toronto as a newcomer, Fatemeh began volunteering with our Welcome Group Program– an experience that helped lead to her current position with United Way Greater Toronto.
“I was in a networking session and I saw someone from United Way. I reached out and said that I’m really interested in working at United Way and I’m also volunteering with Together Project…”
Read more here!
Thinking of applying to be a Welcome Group Program volunteer in Vancouver, Winnipeg, Moncton, Mississauga, or Toronto?
Check out this video for tips on filling out our application form!
Apply here: www.bttr.im/a772o
Learn more about Together Project here: www.togetherproject.ca/volunteer