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About ELTOC
Since 1992, ELTOC and its volunteers have provided more than
90,000 hours of one-on-one English tutoring to 1,850 newcomers to Ottawa from countries such as
Afghanistan, China, Iraq, Libya, Iran, Thailand, Russia, Somalia, Chile, Vietnam, Columbia and many more. Our professional staff include an Executive Director, Education Counsellors and
an Administrator.
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On February 29, 2008, ELTOC was
featured in a 12 minute radio interview on Carleton University's
CKCU! In an interview with Dave Depper of WIAM (World Inter-Action
Mondiale) ESL Education Counsellor, Jane Nicholls, talks about ELTOC
and the vital role it plays in Ottawa helping to integrate newcomers
who are unable to access regular English language training. The
interview was part of WIAM’s
A Luta
Continua which can
be heard every Friday morning at 9:15 a.m. after the BBC news. Many
thanks to Dave and his team for increasing awareness of ELTOC and
the wonderful work done by our volunteers. |
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Click to listen (mp3 format) |
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Mission
Our mission is to help settle and integrate into our community those newcomers to Canada who, for a variety of reasons, have difficulties in accessing community programs on a regular basis.
This mission will be accomplished through the following objectives:
- To assess the needs of newcomers.
- To co-operate with other organizations in the community in order to link newcomers and make referrals to community resources, services, English as a Second Language (ESL) and other programs.
- To provide guidance, advice and general settlement assistance to newcomers to help them settle in our community.
- To provide volunteer tutoring for adults who have no access to appropriate ESL or ESL literacy programs.
- To design individualized programs to meet learners' needs in ESL or ESL literacy.
- To recruit, train and support volunteers.
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ELTOC
#201-153 Chapel
Ottawa, ON, K1N 1H5
email: esl [AT] eltoc.ca
phone: 613-232-8566
fax: 613-232-3792 |
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Number of immigrants in Ottawa: 166,745
Number of allophones: 155,295
Number of new immigrants since 1991: 63,705
Average number of new immigrants each year: 6,370
(Source: 2001 Census, Statistics Canada)
Ottawa receives the highest percentage of immigrants
with a university degree among Canada's large cities. In 2001, just over
half (50.9%) of all recent immigrants aged 25 to 54 who settled in
Ottawa had a university degree.
(Source:http://www.ottawa.ca/city_services/statistics/counts/counts_jul_04/index_en.shtml)
Since 2001, an average of about
240,000 newcomers have arrived in Canada each year, for
a total of some 1.2 million immigrants in five years.
Roughly two-thirds of Canada's population growth now
comes from net international migration.
(Source: 2006 Census,
Statistics Canada)
In the year 2000, immigrants donated more than 98
million hours of volunteer time, which is equivalent to 50,00 full-time
jobs.
(Source- Making Connections: Social and
Civic Engagement among Canadian Immigrants)
Front row (from left):
Jane Nicholls (Education Counsellor)
Kelly Brockwell (Education Counsellor)
Back row
(from left):
Nancy Fanjoy (Education Counsellor)
Mita Basu (Executive Director)
Katherine Taylor-Hernandez (Administrator)
2009-2010
Co - President,
Ann Thompson & Ken Dunn
Vice President,
Kourosh Farrokhzad
Secretary:
Miriam Fry
James A. Williams, Marta Varisco,
Kathryn Brookfield and (Jimmy)Ying
Xie.
DIRECTIONS
ELTOC is a
non-profit charitable organization, funded by
Citizenship & Immigration Canada and private donations.
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