At the March 11 meeting of the Peterborough Partnership Council on Immigrant Integration (PPCII), guest speaker, Magdy ElDakiky, Community Economic Development Specialist at OMAFRA, will deliver a presentation on the Community Immigrant Retention in Rural Ontario (CIRRO) project. The project was designed to respond to the rural communities’ growing need to deal with the issue of human capital decline. Magdy will present highlights of this provincial initiative involving 3 case-study communities (Brockville, North Bay and Chatham-Kent).
The subject of immigrant integration will be more comprehensively addressed at the upcoming PPCII conference “Together We Prosper – Practical Tools for Immigrant Integration”.
Date of presentation: Thursday March 11
Time: 1:00pm – 1:30pm
Location: Auditorium, Peterborough Public Library
Presentation materials (pdf format)
- Slides
- CIRRO Infosheet Jan 2009
- CIRRO Infosheet Jan 2010
Edited 12 March
- Peterborough Examiner news article
- Peterborough Examiner video
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- Peterborough, Ontario, Canada
- Since 1979, the New Canadians Centre Peterborough has been the hub for service provision for new Canadians in the Peterborough community. In 2008, in an effort to create a cohesive regional response to the emerging needs of newcomers, the City of Peterborough and the New Canadians Centre joined together with over twenty-five local organizations to establish the Peterborough Partnership Council on Immigrant Integration.
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