The Interchange
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Express Links for Young Adults
Exposure & Awareness Trips — Cross-Cultural Experience
- Canada World Youth
- Heart-Links — To develop a partnership between Peru and Canada through a sharing of friendship, skills, resources and connections. Knowledge of Spanish a definite attribute. Closing date for application is December 1 of current year. 3 weeks in July
- Jamaican Self-Help
- One World Global Education Program
- Project Brotherhood Society
- Roots of Change Foundation
- Youth Challenge International
Carpentry / Building skills
- Frontiers Foundation/Operation Beaver — Teaching assistants and tutors in Math, Science and English; Music and Drama; Communications; small engine repairs, etc., etc.
- Habitat for Humanity Canada
Construction / Restoration / Agricultural
- Roots of Change Foundation
- Volunteers For Peace (VFP) — 2 - 3 weeks in summer
Lay Mission Programs
- Heart-Links — To develop a partnership between Peru and Canada through a sharing of friendship, skills, resources and connections. Knowledge of Spanish a definite attribute. Closing date for application is December 1 of current year. 3 weeks in July
- Kateri's Companions — Negotiable - St. Albert, SK Holistic pastoral care program with First Nations people - minimum 6 months commitment
- Providence Volunteer Ministry — Variety of work: education, environment, Hispanic ministry, etc. - United States - short term 8 weeks; long term 6 months or longer
- Sisters of St. Benedict - Volunteer Program — variety of services and skills, including organic gardening, planting trees, physiotherapy, pastoral care, musicians, etc. - 1 month or more
Lay Ministry
- Amanecer — working with street children - Spanish a must - 1 year or more
- L'Arche Canada — working with handicapped - 1 year, can be extended
- Little Brothers of the Good Shepherd — working with homeless, people with addictions, pastoral care, social service work, support services and administration - 1 year, renewable
Community Service — Range of Services
- Anawim — Food Bank - Edmonton
- Catholic Community Services — assisting seniors, meals, fundraising, office work, etc. - Montreal
- Fontbonne Ministries, Sisters of St. Joseph, Toronto - providing social needs of the community, especially the homeless, alienated and others.
- Our Place Community of Hope Centre — Drop in Centre -Toronto
- Providence Volunteer Ministry — Variety of work: education, environment, Hispanic ministry, etc. - United States - short term 8 weeks; long term 6 months or longer
- WINGS of Providence — Second stage housing facility for women and children recovering from family violence - Edmonton
Retreat / Prayer
- Madonna House Lay Apostolate
- NET Ministries of Canada, Inc. — Traveling retreat teams
- REACH Youth Ministry — Youth Ministry - traveling retreat teams - US and Canada
Social Justice
- ATD Fourth World Movement
- Jeunnesse du Monde
- Seeds of Hope — Peru and Canada
Work Camps
- Volunteers For Peace (VFP) — 2 - 3 weeks in summer