The International Rwanda Youth for Development (IRYD) Canada COVID-19 LOCAL FOOD SUPPORT PROGRAM is a community complimentary support distributing free food baskets to asylum seekers, newcomers and vulnerable women, seniors and youth in Montreal and Gatineau during the COVID-19 pandemic.
What the program provides
Our project will hand out free food baskets of up to $350 per household depending on family size.
How to benefit from the program
Sign up below by entering all the information requested via the link below:
(This program is made possible through a partnership between IRYD Canada and the Chagnon Foundation).
~ IKINYARWANDA ~
Icyo uyu mushinga ugamije
IRYD Canada “COVID-19 LOCAL FOOD SUPPORT PROGRAM” ni umushinga w’ubufatanye utanga ibiseke by’ibiribwa ku buntu ku abasaba ubuhungiro cyangwa bashya muri Canada, abagore batishoboye, abasaza n’urubyiruko i Montreal na Gatineau mu gihe cyorezo cya COVID-19.
Icyo dufasha
Umushinga wacu uzatanga ibitebo by’ibiribwa bigera ku $350 kuri buri rugo bitewe n’ubunini bw’umuryango cyangwa abo mubana.
Pour renforcer notre gouvernance interne, en 2021, nous avons lancé un processus de planification stratégique (2022-2024), facilité par Kaizen Consultation, un cabinet conseil en gestion stratégique et en développement organisationnel. Le résultat de ce processus jette les bases stratégiques de la diversification de nos services, du renforcement de nos sources de financement et de la création d’un réseau plus fort pour les jeunes Rwando-canadiens et tous les jeunes d’origine africaine afin qu’ils aient accès à des ressources précieuses pour réussir économiquement au Canada et dans le monde.
Nous sommes reconnaissants au Groupe 3737 et au gouvernement du Canada d’avoir financé ce processus de planification stratégique par le biais de l’Initiative Appuyer les Communautés Noires du Canada (IACNC). Nous croyons que notre travail au cours des trois (3) prochaines années inspirera plus de jeunes et créera un impact économique positif pour les jeunes Rwandais et afro-descendants au Canada et dans le monde.
Téléchargez et lisez notre plan stratégique ci-dessous disponible en français et en anglais:
In 2021, IRYD initiated the 2022-2024 strategic planning process facilitated by Kaizen Consulting. The outcome of this process lays the strategic ground for diversifying our services, bolstering our financial sources and creating a stronger network for young Rwandan-Canadians and all youth of African-descent to gain access to valuable resources to succeed economically in Canada and across the globe.
We are thankful that Groupe 3737 and the Government of Canada have financed this strategic planning process through the Supporting Black Canadian Communities Initiative (SBCCI). We believe that our work in the next three (3) years will inspire more youth and create a positive economic impact in Canada and globally.
Download to read our 2022-2024 strategic plan below:
Ottawa-Gatineau, ON-QC/Victoria, BC: The International Rwanda Youth for Development (“IRYD”) Canada and This
Is My Earth (hereafter, “TiME”) with generous support from the Harmony
Foundation of Canada (hereafter, “Harmony”) are pleased to announce their
inaugural collaboration for schools and communities a pilot named the Israel-Rwanda School Biodiversity Program.
Our goal for the program is to create cooperative student learning and action
between junior-high school students in Rwanda and Israel for conservation of
biodiversity.
The three
collaborators have selected Rogozin school in Kiryat Ata, Israel, and Shelter
Them – Batarure (“Shelter Them”) and Groupe Scolaire Rugando (“GS Rugando”) in
Rwanda as their pilot phase implementation partners, through an existing
memorandum of understanding with Rwanda’s Ministry of Education. Key objectives
of the project are aligned with the Government of Rwanda’s National
Biodiversity and Action Plan 2016, which seeks to increase early awareness
among young generations about biodiversity through school programs. This
project will enable students in both countries to learn together about the
vital importance of and practical actions for conserving biodiversity, experience
group decision-making while identifying habitat for protection, enhance
language and communication skills, learn new cultures and skills for
cross-cultural cooperation, develop new skills in agriculture and other fields
to protect biodiversity.
This
collaboration will yield positive results for communities through youth
knowledgeable about and committed to environmentally responsible development.
TiME, IRYD and Harmony are proud to be in association with organizations, schools
and communities committed to positive change and action for our planet.
This is My Earth (TiME) is a non-profit, international
environmental organization that offers every citizen of the world an
opportunity to protect biodiversity. TiME suggests a very affordable membership
($1/year) that enables every member to vote democratically and equally for
their favorite biodiversity hotspot. It is supported by an international
scientific committee and board of directors and works with local communities to
preserve biodiversity.
TiME provides a global, transparent, and democratic
platform for anyone and everyone to help preserve biodiversity. TiME’s
curriculum is at the centre of this initiative
About IRYD
The International Rwanda Youth for Development –
IRYD (‘I Ride’) is not-for-profit independent platform engaging young
Rwandan-Canadians and their friends from other communities on socio-economic
issues affecting them in Canada and abroad.
Harmony Foundation of Canada is a registered
charitable organization recognized internationally for its leadership in
multi-sector cooperation and creating innovative training programs and
educational materials for educators, youth, the workplace, local leaders, and
communities.
Harmony was created in 1985 by Michael Bloomfield to
provide the education and encourage the cooperation essential to development
which is socially and environmentally sustainable. Harmony believes that
sustainable societies depend on informed people working together for positive change,
transforming harmful growth patterns into a positive movement toward long-term
prosperity, social harmony, and ecological stability.
About Shelter
Them
Shelter Them Batarure is a national non-governmental organization registered in Rwanda. Shelter Them-Rwanda’s Mission is to empower vulnerable and underprivileged children in Rwanda, by first ensuring they are integrated in an environment where their basic growth and development needs are met, and by then providing them and their families with the tools and resources they need for these children to have a bright, independent and sustainable future.
About GS Rugando
Rugando Group Scolaire is one of several Government
sponsored rural community schools in Rwanda. This school is in the south-eastern
part of Rwanda, in Eastern Province, Bugesera District, Nyarugenge Sector, and
Rugando Cell. It’s a community school which is currently a lower high school
that serves the Rugando community to have access to nine years of basic
education for all children and providing them with quality education and skills
necessary to achieve their full potential.
About Rogozin, Kiryat Ata
The Rogozin
Educational Campus in Kiryat Ata is made up of two junior high schools, one
senior high school and one college – at which students work towards a two-year
practical engineering diploma in electronics or computer sciences before
entering the army. The institution’s ethos is that it makes every effort to
attract the brightest and most able students, but at the same time works hard
to ensure the success of the academically weaker students.
