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.

​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

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!

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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​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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​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.

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

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.

Credit: Migrant Rights Network 

​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!