Wishing you a happy, healthy and prosperous New Year from all of us at Spanish for Community! 

During these difficult times of the pandemic, Spanish for Community remains focused on its purpose: to expand students’ linguistic skills and cultural understanding by engaging in meaningful community projects for the local and global Spanish speaking community.

We are thrilled to announce our community partners this year:  Ratón de Biblioteca, Collingwood Neighbourhood House, and Little Mountain Neighbourhood House! Also, we look forward to building virtual Community Engaged Learning (CEL) projects with our SPAN 302 students!

More details to follow shortly…

In the meantime, learn more about Ratón de Biblioteca, Collingwood Neighbourhood House, and Little Mountain Neighbourhood House:

 Fundación Ratón de Biblioteca (Medellin, Colombia) is a community organization that facilitates and supports access to library services as well as reading and literacy programs to families, children and youth living in challenging areas of Medellín aiming towards fostering community and civic engagement for a more creative and peaceful society.

 

 

Collingwood Neighbourhood House (CNH) (Vancouver, Canada)  is a non-profit, social services agency serving the community since 1985. CNH promotes the well-being of the Collingwood community by providing leadership and working collaboratively with individuals, families, agencies and other groups to develop and support inclusive, innovative, sustainable initiatives and services that respond to the community’s social, educational, economic, health, cultural and recreational needs.

 

Little Mountain Neighbourhood House (Vancouver, Canada) provides necessary educational, cultural, recreational, and social services for the community of the Little Mountain and Riley Park area. LMNHS encourages active participation and proactivity as it strives towards the development of a healthier community.