It’s Not Just About the Food! Like many new immigrants, Aya* found the process of adjusting to her new life in Vancouver difficult and lonely. That is, until she found her way to the Cooking Club program at Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House (MPNH). Through...
Shivani Mysuria is the founder of Children’s Birthday Miracles (CBM) here at Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House, who studies science at UBC. “Coming from an immigrant family myself,” Shivani says, “My family was not financially able to throw...
For the first time in 99 years, a full solar eclipse was visible across the entire contintental United States. Vancouver’s H.R. MacMillan Space Centre offered a front-row seat to the viewing, and we’ve also found inventive ways of bringing the planetarium...
Summer literacy outreach program celebrates hard work Newcomer families and their volunteer tutors gathered together at Mount Pleasant Neighbourhood House on July 18. With Scrabble games, jelly beans and vegetarian biryani, they celebrated all the hard work the...
Brenda, a Neighbourly Together volunteer, shared her story in her own words: “When I was unexpectedly retired, I thought, What do I do? I move forward. With the support of my family I was encouraged to get out and get involved in something new. I came to Mount...
