Activity:

Intercultural training
For Afro-Caribbean and South Asian communities

CARING FOR OUR ELDERLY

Wednesday, April 5, 2006, 9.30 AM to 4PM

This training session is offered within the framework of an on-going research-action project which is being carried out at the Intercultural Institute of Montreal with the financial support from Canadian Heritage – Multicultural Programs.

• Are you involved with the elderly in your community ?
• Are you concerned about their wellbeing ?
• Would you like to acquire more understanding of the living conditions of the elderly in the context of immigration. ?
• Are you interested in raising awareness of your community about the situation of the elderly ?
• How can you support the family to care for their elderly ?
• Would you like to be a bridge between the elderly of your community and the public services ?
• Would you like to develop intercultural skills to work with he elderly in your community ?

Target group:
        - Members of different religious traditions;
        - Quebecois and ethnocultural community organizations;
        - Anyone interested in this reflection process.

Participants :

Community workers, leaders, animators, volunteers from afro-caribbean and south Asian communities

Number of participants :

10 participants from each community (20 in total)

Where :

Intercultural Institute of Montreal
4917 St. Urbain (corner St. Joseph) Laurier metro

* Registration: no fee (please bring your lunch)

Resource-persons :

- Kalpana Das, Director of the project
- Lomomba Emongo, Consultant-collaborator at the IIM (to be confirmed)
- Élisée Faure, Council for black aging community of Montreal
- Ranjana Jha, Hamara Angan (to be confirmed)
- Resource-person from CLSC René Cassin, (to be confirmed)

Registration is required as places are limited:
please contact Anne-Josée Grégoire at 514-288-7229 or info@iim.qc.ca

With the financial support of