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A summary about the
youth summer activities run by
the Arab Community Center during the summer of 2009
Arab Community
Centre summer program is for youth
between the ages of 12 and 19, which aims to build a bond between Canadian born
youth and newcomer youth to Canada in order to build friendships and make the
newcomer youth transition easier from one hand and make the Canadian youth
understand their duty, as young, in their society. The activities covered
Entertainment, and social areas.
After long time of planning and preparation, the Acct youth summer program was
successfully able to occupy 60 young male and female youth. These 60 youth
participated in planning, management, designing, documenting the summer
programs.
It is our pleasure now to show you a brief report about all activities that were held in summer 2009.
1. Sports Day
Arab Community Centre of Toronto has taken on Thursdays of each week a Sports day in partnership with Toronto District School Board, which included lessons in Taekwondo and yoga in addition to basket ball and soccer with lunch.
2. Dardachat
On Tuesdays of each week a program called “Dardachat” was held which includes talking about issues of interest to the youth from greater Toronto Area, and in some cases adults were invited and decision makers.
3. Sport-in-a-Box
In partnership with UNA-Canada, a Sports- in-A –Box Activities were held at ACCT Premises run by ACCT youth for children between the ages of 9 and 12 which included lunch and distributing gifts. Sports-in-a-Box an innovative project developed by UNA-Canada to encourage active, healthy living for life while bringing awareness of global issues that affect us all to youth and their communities through sport.
4. TROOP Camp
In Collaboration of Toronto Police, 25 Acct Youth participated ina camping trip for one week free of charge. Each Session consists of two days of training and familiarization activities on the Toronto waterfront at Sunnyside Beach using the traditional canoes of the Canadian Voyageurs. Participants will than spend three days travelling together in the wilderness of Ontario in the style of these early explorers.
In addition to what was mentioned Youth represented the ACCT at different Conferences and in some cases they even presented at the conference.
The young people, especially newcomers to Canada, were happy with the outcomes of the program as it was expressed by one of the participants who said "the program allowed me to meet friends in Canada, especially that a new school year is starting soon”.
At the end of this summary we would like to ask all youth who would like to participate in next year’s summer programs or future events to contact the Arab Community Centre of Toronto:
Jouhaina Hmaydani Aisha Abdullahi
416-231-7746 ext. 235 416-231-7746 ext.234
jhmaydani@arabnewcomers.org Aisha@arabnewcomers.org
