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Human Rights and Leadership Training FREE for careworkers and newcomers

8/14/2023

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Kwentuhan @ Wilket Creek Park - free lunch, dance, stretch and relax.

8/8/2023

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in-person picnic, Let's
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Cherry Picking and Niagara Falls!  Have a blast with this trip...

7/8/2023

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Annual Picnic 2023 Rain or Shine we are here!

6/24/2023

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CCESO @ United for Status l Migrant Art Exhibition

5/6/2023

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May 6, 2023 Saturday, a beautiful day for CCESO supporting and witnessing the created Migrant Unity Quilty of stories, images and collective desires. The quilt signifies our struggles and our victories for equality, justice and permanent resident status for all.
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United for Status l Migrant Art Exhibition

5/5/2023

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​May 6, 2023
1pm - 3pm
Toronto, A Different Booklist

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​Exhibition Launch with art talk, music and snacks: Saturday, May 6, 1-3PM

Exhibition dates: May 6 – May 15, 10AM – 6PM
Monday-Saturday (Closed Sunday)*

Also visible from the street after hours.
Migrant farmworkers, domestic workers, undocumented and sex workers have created a Migrant Unity Quilty of stories, images and collective desires. The quilt signifies our struggles and our victories for equality, justice and permanent resident status for all.
This installation is accompanied by hand drawn pictures by hundreds of migrant children separated from their families, or living in fear of deportation and separation, calling for family unity.
Join us at the launch event to deepen the struggle to regularize everyone and ensure status for all. The launch will include artist talks, music and snacks. RSVP now!  

​Our stories, our images, our power, ourselves.
The Migrant Unity Quilt is created by members of Migrant Rights Network – Ontario including Butterfly,
​Caregiver Connections Education and Support Organization (CCESO), FCJ Refugee Center, Migrant Workers Alliance for Change and Workers Action Centre. The children’s drawings are created by family members of Migrant Workers Alliance for Change.
Co-presented with A Different Booklist

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Annual Picnic

5/4/2023

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Summer time is near, and our annual picnic is coming.  Please join us, lots of foods, games, prices, fun, fun fun and enjoy! Save the date  June 24, 2023  Saturday 12pm-4pm @ Downsview Park ,  See you there!
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Day of Action: #UniteAgainstRacism #RefugeesWelcome #StatusForAll

3/19/2023

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Migrant Unity Quilt Launch :  February 25, 20232pm - 2:45pmToronto Metropolitan University Student Center, 55 Gould Street

2/25/2023

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Migrants from across Ontario have been creating a unity quilt. Join us as we launch it at the Justice for Workers Beat the Bosses Bootcamp.
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Dinner and Dance!!!

7/22/2022

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As covid 19 restrictions starts to ease, lets have some fun with our dinner and dance this coming September! 
You are all invited!  A night of food, music and dance...
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Annual Picnic

7/20/2022

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​Hello mga kaCCESO!
Time to mark your calendars and get your #Zumba gears ready!!!
You are invited to our #AnnualPicnic on August 13, 2022!
Come and join us!!!

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Christmas Party 2021

12/5/2021

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​It was a night full of fun and laughter, with singing and dancing and games and prizes!
The food was great too!
Thank you to our officers and advisors for making this happen!
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— at MB The Place To Be Resto Bar and Comedy Lounge.
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Educational Webinar - Session 2

11/18/2021

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Effective Communication and Assertiveness

You are invited to a series of educational webinar.
On our 2nd session, let's talk about ASSERTIVENESS!
​See you on Saturday, November 27th, at 6pm to 8pm.


"Once you have a major success with assertiveness, you learn that it's a much healthier path than being a doormat to the insensitive folks. You gain respect for yourself, have more time for your priorities, and develop authentic and healthier relationships."
― Doreen Virtue
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Educational Webinar

10/25/2021

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Mental Health Awareness

You are invited to a series of educational webinar.
Let's talk about SELF-CARE on Saturday, November 6th, at 6pm to 8pm.


Email us to register: caregiverconnections@gmail.com

“The advice I’d give to somebody that’s silently struggling is: You don’t have to live that way. You don’t have to struggle in silence. You can be un-silent. You can live well with a mental health condition, as long as you open up to somebody about it, because it’s really important you share your experience with people so that you can get the help that you need.” 
— Demi Lovato
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Kwentuhan Sessions Online

9/21/2021

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Federal elections, vaccine passport, atbp.

We have a lot of issues to talk about this Sunday!
Did you vote? Was it your first time to vote? How do you feel about the vaccine passport? Do you know anyone who hasn't get their vaccines yet? How about learning new technical skills, or the art of storytelling? That sounds interesting, right?

Come join us on the 26th of September, 2021 at 11am.

Email us to register!

caregiverconnections@gmail.com 

​See You!
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Kwentuhan Sessions Online

9/8/2021

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Canadian Elections, etc.

It's election time! Are you qualified to vote? Are you going to vote?
Are you in favor of the reopening of schools?
Let's talk about these topics this Sunday.
Come and join us!
To register, send email to caregiverconnections@gmail.com
See you!
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Kwentuhan Sessions - Online

8/18/2021

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We are back to online kwentuhan!

It was fun in the park and wonderful seeing you there. 
Let's talk about it on Sunday, August 22, 2021 at 11am.

Email us to register!

caregiverconnections@gmail.com
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Kwentuhan Sessions

7/20/2021

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Let's talk about STAGE 3

The Roadmap to Reopen is a three-step plan to safely and cautiously reopen the province and gradually lift public health measures. We are now on Step 3! How do you feel about it? How confident are you to go out and mingle?
Let's talk about it on Sunday, July 25th, at 11 am via Zoom!


Email us at caregiverconnections@gmail.com to register.

*Attendees will receive $15 each session
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Kwentuhan Sessions

7/7/2021

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Have you received your Covid vaccine?

CCESO is inviting you to our weekend online kwentuhan sessions.
​Please see the flyer below for the dates.
Let's continue to support each other and keep updated.
Share stories, your worries, the good news and the bad news. We are here to listen!

See you this Sunday, July 11 @ 11 am!

Send email to caregiverconnections@gmail.com to register

*Attendees will receive $15 each session

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Kwentuhan Sessions sa Park

6/21/2021

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CCESO is inviting you for LUNCH! :)

Finally, Ontario is now on STEP 1 of the Roadmap to Reopen!

​Our support group is ready to see you in person.
Let’s continue to share our stories with the group, while enjoying the weather outside!


Join us this Sunday, June 27, 2021 @11:00 a.m. @ Downsview Park
​70 Canuck Avenue, Toronto (Nearest intersection: Sheppard Ave. West and Keele Street)
​To register, send email to caregiverconnections@gmail.com

Note: Mask is required and we need to impose social distancing.
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Cceso  and the Migrant Rights Network at the #StatusForAll rally/march  at 74 Victoria Street . Cdn Immigration Building.

6/20/2021

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Sixty-six Years Of Struggle

6/16/2021

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JOIN US on June 20th!

Migrant domestic workers have been coming to Canada without full immigration status - which means without full rights - since 1955. Sixty-six years of exclusion and exploitation. And for sixty six years they have been leading the fight for justice.

Today is International Domestic Workers Day - a day to mark decades of organizing to win respect and rights for those who do the in-home labour, and care for children, sick and the elderly. 

Today is the 10th anniversary of the Convention on Decent Work for Domestic Workers of the International Labour Organization (ILO Convention 189). It requires countries to ensure equal rights for domestic workers. Canada refuses to sign this convention or implement it.
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And so today we reflect on our histories:
  • Black Caribbean women, along with many other workers, led the fight to create a path to permanent residence (PR) for migrant care workers in the 1980s.
  • In the 1990s, workers’ struggles forced the removal of a number of exclusionary requirements, but care workers were forced to live in employer homes.
  • In 2010, migrant care workers won the Juana Tejada law, removing the requirement for a second medical exam to get PR.
  • In 2014, care workers won an end to the live-in requirement. But a cap of 2,750 per year was put on PR applications, and unfair requirements for English and education were put in place.
  • In 2017, careworkers led the fight to remove medical inadmissibility rules, which led to them being significantly reduced, though they remain in place.
  • In 2019, careworkers won an Interim Pathway to allow many workers in Canada to get PR without the exclusionary requirements introduced in 2017.
  • And during COVID-19, migrant careworkers are organizing across the country for vaccine access, mobility and immigration and labour rights. 
Migrant women hold up Canada: Temporary foreign workers make up 10% of private household workers in Canada. Thousands of undocumented mostly racialized women are doing in-home domestic work. Thousands more migrant women are working in long-term care homes and as personal support workers. 

But immigration laws force care workers into abusive jobs. Many careworkers are tied to their employers, dependent on them for healthcare and housing, and separated from their families for years. According to our last survey, 1 in 3 workers we spoke to were laid off during COVID-19 but are not allowed to work anywhere else.

Even those who complete the impossible PR requirements are made to wait years to hear a decision on their applications. Many of us signed petitions and delivered them on May 9th. As a result the government promised to process 6,000 out of 12,000 applications in the backlog by the end of this year. That means half have to wait another year and half, stuck with potentially abusive employers and without open work permits. 

Worse still, no new PR applications for childcare workers are being accepted in the regular stream this year. The program’s arbitrary cap of 2,750 applications per year was reached on April 30th, and care workers must now wait until next year to apply.

Those who fall out of status because of these impossible requirements or are in undocumented care work are unable to assert their rights at work and are shut out of basic services like health care and income support. 

The government’s new PR program for essential workers that opened in May allows some care workers to apply. But those who have lost their status, those without work or without English language test results are excluded. ​

But migrant care workers are continuing the struggle, join in! On June 20th, find an action near you or organize one in your community: https://migrantrights.ca/june20/
  • VANCOUVER: June 20, 10am, CBC Plaza.
  • TORONTO: June 20, 1pm, IRB, 74 Victoria Street, March to City Hall
  • SUDBURY: June 20, 1pm, MP Marc Serrée Constituency office. 2914 Hwy 69 N, Unit 1, Val Caron
  • ONLINE: Take a photo with your family and post a message to Justin Trudeau: Unite All Families! Status for All!. Make sure to tag @MigrantRightsCA
  • IN YOUR NEIGHBOURHOOD: Put up posters and distribute pamphlets.
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On June 20th, join actions in Toronto, Sudbury, Vancouver, or online for full and permanent immigration status for all!
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Credit: Migrant Rights Network 
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Kwentuhan Sessions

6/4/2021

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COVID-19 Vaccines

​Kumusta na? Vaccinated kana ba?
Are you still worried? Skeptical about the vaccine?
If you know somebody who is undocumented and isn't vaccinated, there is help.
Tara kwentuhan tayo!!!
You can ask questions, you can even start a topic you want.
Hear our stories, be inspired.
You can be an inspiration too!!
This Sunday na, June 13 @11 am
See you!
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Kwentuhan Sessions

5/20/2021

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Community pantries in the Philippines

​Join our Support Group on Saturday, May 22, 2021 at 2:00PM to 4:00PM
​Please register: caregiverconnections@gmail.com
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Study the New Short-term Pathway to Permanent Residency for Migrant Care Workers In Canada

4/27/2021

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