Julia Zhu, our program facilitator, met Shirley at a local park while participating in outreach recruiting participants to the Bond to Literacy program. Shirley was right away very interested in the Bond to Literacy program and proceeded to register herself and her...
“At the Association of Neighbourhood Houses of BC, we will certainly opt in to the child-care fee reduction initiative,” said Deb Bryant, CEO of ANHBC. “We’re glad to be part of an initiative that provides some financial relief to the families we serve.” “The...
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...
