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Serve as a Member of Romero House’s Board of Directors and Help Welcome Refugees to Our Community
Would you like to be part of Romero House’s mission of welcoming refugees as our neighbours? We are looking for individuals who share our passion and commitment to serving the community. As a member of the board of directors, you will be responsible for overseeing Romero House’s work, including financial, legal, and quality oversight. You…
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Support the Waterfront Marathon!
The Toronto Waterfront Marathon is back! On Sunday, October 15, 2023 the Romero House community will be walking and running to raise money for the important work of welcoming refugees. We would love your support!
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Rally for Housing and Shelter Funding Now!
Join us Friday, July 28 at 12pm outside Minister Freeland’s office (near Spadina subway station) to demand more action from the Federal Government to address the housing crisis affecting refugee claimants.
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Dos Cervezas Por Favor by Harold Wright
Although I have been volunteering as a member of the Romero House community in different roles for many years, I have never before taken the opportunity to share some of what this experience has meant to me. Since the beginning of the Covid pandemic, I have had a couple of new roles: English language conversation…
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Wanda Road Street Party
On Saturday, June 10th, Romero House will have its annual street party on Wanda Road. The road will be closed off for the afternoon into the night for the party.
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2023 Howcroft Lecture Recording
We invite you to watch the video of our annual Howcroft Lecture recording for 2023. The lecture series honours one of the founding members of Romero House, Lorne Howcroft, and his commitment to faith and justice. Our speaker this year was Ausma Malik. The first hijab-wearing Muslim woman elected to public office in Canada, Councillor Malik is known for staring down…
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New report on deportations and guide for people in the deportation process
Kathryn Tomko Dennler and Brianna Garneau, researchers at York University, published a report on November 10, 2022 about the removals/deportation process in Canada for people with a refused refugee claim. Romero House was proud to act a community partner in this report, which was funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada…
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Reflections from a Vaccine Ambassador
Romero House has partnered with the FCJ Refugee Centre and the City of Toronto to participate in a vaccine ambassador program that sees community members tackling vaccine hesitancy, misinformation and accessibility. We are grateful to have had two wonderful ambassadors working with Romero House. Below are the reflections from Winnie Muchuba on the important work…
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Celebrating Womxn: One Hundred and Ten Years Later
International Women’s Day was honoured for the first time in 1911. In that year, more than 1 million people attended rallies to demand women’s rights to fair work, to vote, and to hold public office. One week later, the ‘Triangle Fire’ in New York City took the lives of 140 working women, most of them…
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Climate Migrants
Does Canada have a mechanism to welcome climate migrants? Read the article below written for Romero House by Gwenyth Wren, law student at Osgoode Law School