MONTREAL – Cogeco is partnering with Centraide of Greater Montreal to support an innovative project designed to help foster the successful integration of Syrian refugees in Canada.
‘Training for Better Newcomer Integration’ aims to ensure that Syrian refugees will integrate successfully into the community and contribute fully to its social and economic vitality. Cogeco will invest $500,000 over five years to develop and implement a training program to help community and institutional stakeholders equip the many front-line workers involved in refugee integration with the tools that they need.
The tools developed under this initiative will be offered to the agencies supported by Centraide across Quebec as well as to the agencies supported by United Way in Ontario, which will also help to facilitate the integration of Syrian refugees.
"Thanks to Centraide of Greater Montreal and its in-depth knowledge of the community sector, we are firmly convinced that this program will have a real positive impact, not only on the Syrian refugees, but also on the people who will welcome them”, said Cogeco Inc. and Cogeco Communications Inc. president and CEO Louis Audet, in the news release. “Our five-year pledge demonstrates our clear commitment to support, today and in the years to come, the integration of newcomers into Quebec society. Overall, this initiative will have a lasting positive effect and it is an excellent way for Cogeco, as well as for other companies that may wish to join us, to foster the development of our community."
