Job Opportunity for Sudanese Person

JOB POSTING

Position/Classification:    Cultural Resource Facilitator (Sudanese)

Competition #:                 14-12

Department/Location:      Community Inclusion & Support Services

Reports To:                     Supervisor, Ethno Cultural Programs

Category:                         Part-Time (.5EFT), Term

                                        (Term ending June 31, 2013, subject to 24 hours notice)

Job Responsibilities:

The Cultural Resource Facilitator (Sudanese) is responsible for providing support to individuals with disabilities in the Sudanese community, and for providing direct support to individuals with disabilities and families facing language and cultural barriers. They will also provide support to case managers and community leaders, and provide leadership in the broader community through the delivery of SMD workshops and presentations.

Qualifications:

ü  Ability to speak and write Dinka and Arabic.

ü  Should have extensive knowledge of the cultural values of their community and Canadian culture.

ü  Experience working with people with disabilities and an understanding of cultural barriers regarding disability.

ü  Strong interpersonal and communication skills.

ü  Ability to speak and write English at a level that service providers can understand and at a level required for report and letter writing.

ü  Post secondary degree in the Human Services Field.  Previous experience working within the multicultural field an asset. A combination of education and experience will be considered.

ü  1 to 3 years experience working in the human service sector is required.

ü  Ability to work both independently and as a member of a team.

ü  Possess good computer skills.

ü  Some evenings and weekend work is required.

ü  Valid Manitoba Drivers License and access to a vehicle an asset.

Closing date for this position is Wednesday, June 6, 2012.  To apply for this position:

Please go to our website at:  www.smd.mb.ca

or

Email:  humanresources@smd.mb.ca

We thank all applicants, however, only those considered for interviews will be contacted.

Job postings

Check out this link and see if anything interests you

http://ccednet-rcdec.ca/en/regional_networks/national/job_postings-en

Career Advice from Oprah

Take this message to heart my friends

"I was never given any advice. I had to figure it out for myself," she said, looking me right in the eyes. "But my best advice is to let your passion lead your purpose. There is a seed of desire inside of every person, and if you get still enough, you can feel it. You can't feel it if you allow your mother, friends, school or everybody else to tell you who it is you're supposed to be. But there is a seed of heart's desire that burns in every person, and your real job on earth is to figure out what that thing feels like and then spend the rest of your life following it. That thing has led me all the way here, to this stage, to this day and 8,500 people lined up. That's the real reason I'm here: I've allowed myself to listen to that thing. And everybody has it. So my best advice is to follow that." Oprah Winfrey

http://www.chatelaine.com/en/article/38351--oprah-s-secret-to-a-successful-career

Employment opportunities

I will be posting any employment opportunities for immigrant women looking for work. If you know of any job opportunity, please post it to this blog.
Yesterday I was at an AGM and there were many newcomers present many of them just trying to network to be able to find jobs in their fields or any job for that matter.
Thank you - keep checking

Globe and Mail Special on immigrant issues

Integrating into the labour force is only part of the picture. People everywhere have an innate need for connection, belonging and a sense of welcome no matter where life’s lottery assigned their birthplace. True, some of these needs are satisfied by meaningful work, but life is much more than a job or career.
Through the work of the Institute for Canadian Citizenship with tens of thousands of new citizens and more than 1,000 cultural attractions across Canada, we hear endless stories that make it abundantly clear that those newest to our country crave more than jobs. We hear how meaningful it is for a new citizen to discover a national park, how volunteering at a child’s school enables a new citizen to make friends in the community, and how visiting a museum helps them to connect to Canada.
A simple focus on immediate economic needs cannot come at the expense of longer-term nation-building.
The fact is, Canada naturalizes a far higher percentage of immigrants than any other country on Earth, with roughly 85 per cent of those eligible eventually becoming Canadian citizens. Landing and settling here are, for most newcomers, temporary points along the road to becoming a citizen.
Indeed, we look to marry, not casually date, those who choose to come to Canada. In a groundbreaking national survey on attitudes toward citizenship, Canadians on Citizenship (in which the ICC was a partner), foreign-born Canadian citizens and permanent residents were asked when they first felt “Canadian.” The overwhelming response: the moment they arrived in Canada. Immigrants arrive pre-wired for engagement in Canadian society.
It’s clear that Canada’s long-term stability, success and peaceful cohesion depend on creating engaged and active Canadian citizens, not just on employing immigrants.
This isn’t difficult. In Canadians on Citizenship, Canadians also identified that citizenship is far more than voting, obeying the law and paying taxes. They named community engagement, volunteering, acceptance of difference, protecting the environment and many other activities as essential acts of citizenship.
So then what of the Canadian-born? As a 13th-generation Canadian, I read the series wondering if the “immigrant answer” gave me an automatic bye from contributing to the health and vitality of my nation.
By focusing on the immigrant answer, we are placing an undue and unfair burden on the newly arrived that we don’t place on ourselves. ....
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/time-to-lead/immigrants-arent-the-only-ones-with-responsibilities/article244019

Marriages of convenience

The government has listened to the cries of many Canadians who are duped into marriages that are only for convenience, some intentional and others cruelly duped.

The new legislation would put a crinkle in this arrangement and it will affect everyone who intends to marry and sponsor their partners.

I have seen a Canadian woman who married a Nigerian man, marched  on the streets with her wedding gown as a protest demanding government deport the man she worked hard to bring to Canada as her new husband. He came alright but not long after moved out of the wedding home and left her high and dry.  But that's not where the story ends. In this story if this man does not have a job he becomes the responsibility of his sponsor and if she does not pay up and he goes on the welfare system, that is a debt that the person who sponsored him would have to pay.  It seems unfair but the law is the law. It is our responsibility to ensure that the people we take responsibility for are worth it.
 There are also many Indian women and men who are caught in this trap and hearts are broken over this fraudulent behaviour of some people who would do anything to get a landed visa to a western country.

However with the changes now afoot, the government would require greater proof and visas will not be doled out as easily. In some cases a couple will be forced to live together for two or more years before their marriage would be recognised as such under the law.  Maybe it is a good thing because during that period the two people if not in love may actually fall in love and decided to stay together.
If there is family violence involved i.e. if a man brings a woman here and abuses her that would would be able to leave and maintain her status even if she has just arrived. This will also be the same for a man who is being abused in any way.

What do you think are some of the benefits and disadvantages of this new rule, would it help or hurt immigrant women?  Your views will be greately appreciated.

The Refugee Process in Canada

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2010/08/12/f-refugees-canada-faqs.html

More charges in Tamil Smuggling

Two more people have been charged with organizing illegal entry into Canada in connection with a ship that brought hundreds of Tamil migrants to B.C.'s West Coast.
According to documents sworn in B.C. provincial court in Vancouver, Kunarobinson Christhurajah and Lesly Jana Emmanuel were charged Monday in connection with the MV Sun Sea, the boat that arrived off the B.C. coast in August 2010, carrying 492 people.
Christhurajah and Emmanuel are both named in an amended indictment, bringing to three the total of people now charged in the case.
Christhurajah and Emmanuel were both arrested in B.C. and are slated to make an appearance in Vancouver Provincial Court Wednesday morning.
"The investigation remains ongoing and we're continuing to gather evidence," said RCMP Sgt. Duncan Pound.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/05/15/bc-mv-sun-sea-tamil-charges.html

The story of the road to the Nobel Prize Winner - Pray the Devil Back to Hell

Lorna Dueck with Nobel Prize Winner Leymah Gbowee "Mighty Be Our Powersl" 

http://youtu.be/1Tj0_Ll549o

Refugees inject new life into empty places of worship

Canada has to thank newcomers for all the ways in which they energise the Canadian population and economic landscapes with their colours, foods, business-know-how and also for their spiritual enthusiasm.Many newcomers find solace in churches, mosques and temples which hitherto were threatened with closure to make way for more purposeful use.
    Newcomers not only find community in Churches but the Church appears to be a place where many needs and wants are fulfilled and appears to  make it a big part of their lives. Belief in God is stronger among newcomers than Canadian born or people who have lived here a long time.
  According to recent research the Presbyterian Church is a champion of sponsoring refugees and it has sponsored a significant number of the more than 200,000 refugees who came to this country over the past 25 years.  These refugees later become members of the Church and  help to keep many church doors open.  Church sponsorship has been eclipsed for the time being as the federal government attempts to deal with the backlog of applications.  However for now newcomers interest in matters of the spirit will keep their doors open for some time to come.
  

Criminals with only landed immigrant gets deported after serving time in Canadian jails.

Many immigrants and refugees believe that once they land in Canada with their landed immigrant visas they are home free, safe and sound.  All this is true once you life a live free of crime. If however, one succumbs to the  lure of easy street where money flows easily and under the cloak of secrecy and darkness from the hands of criminals such as drug dealers and other types of traffickers and one is caught while not a Canadian citizen, one can be tried sent to jail and after jail deported back to where they come from.
   Many Winnipeg refugees and immigrants dreams of a new life in a new and prosperous country vanished in this way. And it s seems that no among of crying and promising to be better have worked in the past.
    Immigrants and refugees ought to think 100 times before deciding to give in to the temptations of joining a gang or doing anything illegal because chances are you will be caught and you will be sure to be deported as soon as you have served your time in Canada.
   Andrew Bawa, community worker for Project Oasis that focus of immigrant/refugee youths, says that gang recruiters even show up at the airport to scout potential prospects for their despicable trade. The gang offers immediate cash which makes going to school less attractive.
   This is a serious problem for refugee youths, not only in Winnipeg but in most major cities in Canada and is a problem that remains to be effectively tackled. Perhaps youths ought to be warned about the dangers of gang life even before they leave refugee camps to let them know that a better life may await them but they must abide by the law.

Winnipeg's the most immigrant friendly city

Winnipeg sponsors more refugees than any other community in Canada. And according to recent research, African refugees are the newest and fastest growing groups of refugees.  There are more than 30,000 Africans living in Manitoba at the moment.
  While many refugees who come here are willing to get on with their lives, the problem of housing pose a serious hindrance to their settlement and integration.
   According to a recent study by Professor Tom Carter, University of Winnipeg, 91 per cent of refugees live below the poverty line in their first year and most have to live in transitional housing and social housing but they work hard to climb out of poverty and by the time they are three years  in the province the number drops to 53  percent who still live below the poverty line.
   The bottom line is there is a serious shortage of affordable housing and this needs to be fixed.

Vancouver MP Fights for immigrants with Disabilities

A naturalized Canadian citizen of Indian origin Kevin Patel, living in Vancouver, sponsored of his sponsored his parents and sister to come and live in Canada as permanent residents but the application was rejected because the government believed his believes his sister's (disabled)  condition could be a heavy burden to the Canadian health care system and taxpayers.

What do you think? Is it fair that the government deny people with disabilities for permanent residence in Canada solely because of the potential financial burdens they would cost taxpayers?

Do you think that family members should take out private insurance to cover the cost of individuals they sponsor with disabilities?

Empower yourself

How to Transcend Feeling Lost in your Life
Written by Jafree Ozwald
"Care about each and every thing; Don't make a distinction between the great and the small. Cleaning the floor, do it with deep care, as if it is the body of the beloved. Each indifferent act becomes a slow suicide, a slow death. Be overflowing, don't be a miser." ~Osho
Life is so short. Only 70-80 years for most of us and this life is gone. Have you ever wondered, "what's the point of it all?" At some point in this infinite journey around the Sun, each and every one of us will experience a deep sensation of being completely lost. Yes, this is inevitable. We must all go through the experience of not having a clue which is the best direction for us to be going. Whether it be your job, relationship, health, family or spiritual path, you are guaranteed to experience a time before you die where you will not have any confidence or certainty in where you're going or what you're doing.

When this occurs for you remember my invitation, it is quite simple. When the sensations of confusion and trepidation flood the brain and make you believe everything is not as it should be, do not resist them. Simply treat each one as a doorway to the Divine. Give yourself permission to greet the "lost experience" intimately, as if God was standing on your front porch in the middle of Summer waiting for you with a tall glass of lemonade. Meet the experience fully and drink it in deeply. Bend over and kiss the ground it walks on and do not try to change it in any way.

It's good to know that the Universe will continuously keep providing you with the experience of feeling lost so that one day you truly give up searching "out there", and uncover this beloved warm fuzzy home within yourself. All those moments of indecision and fear are meant to force the mind to stop moving forward, searching backward, and suddenly cause everything to come to a complete stop. This full stop is the vehicle we all need to transcend the mind and find the spiritual path inside. This is one of life's wondrous gifts to help us discover what meditation really is. Without the experience of confusion we would all be very very lost and confused.

Be cautious of the mind for whenever your mind doesn't know what you should be doing with your life, it might start making you believe that something is wrong with you. It may start to judge and condemn you, saying there must be a deep personal issue you need to investigate with a counselor. The ego starts to become afraid that all its great efforting was for nothing. It doesn't want you to do nothing, for you will soon find out that you already have all the answers within you! The ego-mind doesn't want to give up being in charge of life, it would rather sacrifice your self esteem than surrender. Only in deep surrender is there stillness, and the path to opening the heart to total freedom. It is by going through the fire that we purify and are reborn.

The best path is to use your disbelief and doubt as a doorway to the reveal a deeper truth of who you really are. Doubt is always our initial guide to finding freedom because it has no objective, agenda or fixed opinion. It is always wavering, thinking it could be this or that, which forces you to drop deeper into the heart. When you surrender to it all and drop deep inside you'll see that trust was always here, inside your heart, as your real guru and guide. If you can quiet your mind for one minute you can hear what its saying to you. Listening to the heart is easy when you put the world on the back burner. It just happens on its own when you relinquish all attachment to the end result and give in to the simplicity of being purely here in the now. Most of us however are so trained and goal orientated that we cannot hear the longing of the heart, and often reject any wobbling experience that may make us feel derailed from our normal path. It is such a good thing that there are so many distractions in life, otherwise we would be like automatized robots and never discover what the real spiritual journey is about.

Life is such a deep juicy adventure, so do not be afraid of it! Know that each moment is the sacred source revealing itself to you. Just be deeply honest and stop hiding your light from the world. Whatever it is that youreally really really want in life can be yours. The secret is to know how to change your vibration and attitude so that you can receive it. You must dive beneath the surface, into your innermost being and discover the power that you truly have. Once you bring a halt to the mind chatter you'll find out what really makes your heart go pitter-pat, and experience every moment of life is taking on the most amazing rich flavor you have ever tasted. Enjoy!

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