MOSAIC’S COMMUNITY ROOM

For the past 25 years, MOSAIC has maintained an ongoing commitment to working with a variety of community based groups and organizations. We have long been aware that the most common barrier hindering their work was the lack of accessible and affordable meeting space. This barrier has been an especially difficult one for community groups involving women and children.

We believe one of the best contributions we could make to the development and growth of the communities we work with is to facilitate access to a comfortable, child friendly place to meet. Late last fall, when space became available on the main floor in our building, the time was right to transform it into a Community Room.

We envisioned a bright, clean, and inspiring environment, a room where children are welcome participants; a place where community members could dream, plan and realize a better future for themselves and their extended networks.

Last spring we had the great pleasure of opening the Community Room for the communities we work with. It was a heartwarming ceremony, particularly when women from the Afghani Women’s Group and the Somali Women’s Group unveiled a mural created by Nora Patrich and Juan Sanchez.

The Community Room is fully equipped and to date has been used by a variety of groups and organizations, free of charge, including: Afghani Women’s Group, Latin American Community Council, Windows of Opportunity participants, Vietnamese Youth Forum Planning Committee, Hispanic Seniors, Common Journeys group, Women’s Research Centre, Vietnamese Inter-Generational Women’s Group, etc...

We hope to in-crease the use of the Community Room. When people meet to discuss, reflect, share ideas and take action, the whole community benefits. We are delighted to be able to host these initiatives. Keep those requests coming!