WE Belong Podcast

213 - Keziah and CARE Centre for Internationally Educated Nurses

Keziah studied nursing back home in Ghana, and hoped to use her skills and experience to practice nursing here in Windsor-- but found that the process to become a registered nurse in Ontario was more complicated than expected. Thankfully, she had support from CARE Centre for Internationally Educated Nurses to help her navigate the system. Mary Strong, a Case Manager for CARE joins us to tell us more about their programs and services. Visit www.care4nurses.org to learn more.

212 - Irek Kusmierczyk and the TeaMWork Project

Irek and his family came to Canada as political refugees from Poland when he was 5 years old. Since then, he has served his community and country as Windsor City Councillor and Member of Parliament, and currently oversees the TeaMWork Project which supports Temporary Foreign Workers.

211 - Kelsey Santarossa: Immigration and Workforce Development

Kelsey Santarossa, Director of Community and Workforce Development at Workforce WindsorEssex, discusses the intersection of immigration and workforce development in the region while reflecting on the ongoing work to develop a community and labour market plan, as well as the stories shared over the first ten episodes of Season 2 of the WE Belong Podcast.

210 - Liena & Beraka et l'école secondaire Sainte Trinité

Liena et Beraka sont venues au Canada du Burundi afin de commencer de nouvelles vies, et elles poursuivent leurs études à l’école secondaire catholique Sainte-Trinité, qui fait part du CSC Providence.

209 - Dani and The Pop Yard

In Brazil, Dani started running pop-up markets as a passion project to do outside of her day job. Now she's brought her passion to Windsor through the Pop Yard, which has been giving opportunities to other newcomer creators to share and sell their work.