Support Services: Immigrant Women

Future Generations Dept: They developed a network of support services for themselves and future generations of newcomers. They created training and employment programs for women with no Canadian experience, no connections and no way of getting a foothold in the workforce. They set up female-run businesses that employed newcomers. They lifted immigrant women from the lowest socio-economic status in Canadian society to a level where they could earn a living wage, become citizens and break down the barriers that had confronted them. They made multiculturalism work, according to The Star. Finally, after 35 years of activism, the missing chapter of Toronto s history has been written. It is called Making the City: Women Who Made a Difference and one of Toronto s great untold stories is the role immigrant women played in knitting the social fabric of Toronto. Along the way, they changed their communities and changed the face of the city. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.