Encounters with Canada!!

Hi everyone,

Please read the information below as there is a new calendar for the spring and new and exciting opportunities for our students to attend the VIMY weeks in Ottawa with:

Encounters with Canada. http://www.ewc-rdc.ca/

There is a scholarship and bursaries available!!

　

 

The Vimy Foundation:

The Encounters with Canada Support Foundation

Director General Brunet thanked both organizations for their generous support of Encounters’ participants. She said it was a great tribute to the strong and longstanding relationship between these organizations and Encounters with Canada – as well as a testament to the hard work and dedication of Program Director Francine Jobin and her staff in delivering an outstanding program week after month after year!

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The Encounters with Canada Support Foundation: In 2011, the foundation very generously subsidized the registration fees of all participants by $100 for the Vimy: Canada’s Coming of Age theme week. At this year’s annual general meeting, held recently at the Terry Fox Canadian Youth Centre, the Foundation agreed to provide a $75 bursary to each student attending the two Vimy weeks this year. For more information about the EWC Support Foundation:
Director General Brunet thanked both organizations for their generous support of Encounters’ participants. She said it was a great tribute to the strong and longstanding relationship between these organizations and Encounters with Canada – as well as a testament to the hard work and dedication of Program Director Francine Jobin and her staff in delivering an outstanding program week after month after year!http://www.ewcfrdc.ca/: In 2011, the foundation very generously subsidized the registration fees of all participants by $100 for the Vimy: Canada’s Coming of Age theme week. At this year’s annual general meeting, held recently at the Terry Fox Canadian Youth Centre, the Foundation agreed to provide a $75 bursary to each student attending the two Vimy weeks this year. For more information about the EWC Support Foundation: http://www.ewcfrdc.ca/http://www.vimyfoundation.ca/ Director General Linda Brunet is very proud to announce that Executive Director Valerie Bince-Stuart of the Vimy Foundation has confirmed that they will be offering a second week in both 2012 and 2013 for Vimy: Canada’s Coming of Age, with the weeks running back-to-back. They will also be paying the tuition for 10 students per year, all finalists of the prestigious Beaverbrook Vimy Prize, which provides scholarships for students to study abroad. For more information about the Vimy Foundation and the Beaverbrook Vimy Prize: http://www.vimyfoundation.ca/

Vimy offers a second week in 2012 and 2013 – EWC Support Foundation donates $75 per student for all Vimy week participants in 2012