Imperial Multicultural Network Association
Imperial Multicultural Network Association
Charitable Non-Profit
Statement, Objectives, Mandate and Mission
March 15, 2017
Statement of purpose
Imperial Multicultural Network Association will engage in educational and cultural exchanges, between Canada and countries abroad.
Cultural shows and recreation
Imperial Multicultural Network Association is a group of knowledgeable professionals dedicated to enhancing the relationship between Canadian, Indian, Chinese, American, Mexican and Panamanian communities to foster engagement in sports and recreational activities, religious services, education, and multicultural shows, such as dancing, singing, and fashion shows.
World-class cultural events, multi-media production and the Arts
The Association further plans to expand its mandate by creating an environment in which the local arts can flourish, while also showcasing the talent of both the Indian and Chinese communities on a regular basis and overseeing many of the culturally well-known events. Our objective is to help develop economic value for the City by supporting its local arts and culture community, and in doing so, we will continue to build capacity and provide opportunities to young and local artists. We will create numerous programs and events; seminars; religious ceremonies; recording music; and producing films and documentaries.
The outcomes of this expanded mandate are to:
1) Support exchanges between artists and cultural organizations;
2) Find projects that can unite society through art, poetry, new media, music, dance, painting and theater;
3) Promote art and culture in education to children;
4) operate an inter cultural exchange for creative children with residence in Canada, USA, India, China and Panama;
5) Create funding mechanisms for exchanges and collaboration projects between Canada, India, China, USA and Panama.
Connect community services to newcomers in need
Our Association will be established in Canada as a Non-Profit Organization (NPO), overseen by a Board of Directors and a small-dedicated staff of volunteers; who will work closely with other multi-cultural groups to facilitate newcomers with settlement and integration into Canada, in order to retain them. Services will be offered in English, French, Hindi, Punjabi, and Chinese. All services will be provided to new immigrants free of charge in order to encourage and promote Canada’s cultural diversity. We will connect existing community service providers with the needs of newcomers through a centrally coordinated service delivery model; serve as an advocate for newcomers and existing multicultural communities in Toronto and Ottawa; and create a road map for newcomers. Our goal is to increase the understanding of Canada’s cultural diversity through the Association’s networking; and platform of cultural and educational exchanges.
Student exchanges between Canada and abroad
The Association plans to build capacity to facilitate exchange programs. For example, students from China and India can visit Canada, and in turn, Canadian students can visit India and China on summer break programs. Exchange programs may include: student exchanges, sports exchanges, youth exchanges, and leadership exchanges. This will be done through building relationships between schools, colleges, universities, and organizations.
An exchange program of student to student will have the following outcomes:
1) Engaging global youth leaders and identifying shared challenges; this takes place through collaboration with foreign schools, colleges and universities worldwide; visits to host communities and countries; and collaboration with partner organizations;
2) Empowering global youth leaders through networks and opportunities; this includes focusing on a global youth entrepreneurs and students; and,
3) Elevating youth voices and causes; this takes place by representing youth focused forums; ensuring that youth voices are heard in public venues; and creating platforms to educate.
4) Demonstrate involvement of more than one single cultural, religious or ethnic community and establish concrete opportunities for positive interaction among them.
Enhance global education and cross-curriculum development
Exchange programs provide opportunities for students to understand features of a fair and just society that values diversity by focusing on a range of cross-curriculum areas. Some institutions may wish to use a cultural exchange program to address issues of local concern; teachers, staff, students, parents, or community members may identify such examples of local issues, including:
· Manifestations of racism;
· Perceived lack of understanding of issues given media attention;
· Limited understanding of Canada’s cultural diversity;
· Limited experience with indigenous communities;
· Limited understanding of indigenous culture and history;
· Limited experience of—and understanding about—the issues facing rural and regional communities.
· With emphasis on feeding needy and hungry children.
· Will create concrete opportunities for interaction among cultural, faith or ethnic communities.
· Involvement with community-based celebrations of the historic contributions to Canada of particular ethnic, cultural or religious groups, including in support of initiatives such as Asian Heritage Month and Indian Religious Celebrations.
· musical events that bridge ethnic, cultural or religious communities
· a sporting activity involving members of various ethnic, cultural or religious communities.
· Health, education, justice and community service workers who are in a position to intervene and support survivors if they witness or become aware of gender-based violence and support survivors
Exchange programs may focus on any number of curriculum-based or cross-curriculum areas and may be delivered in a variety of ways. They may take the form of one-off or brief socio-cultural experiences or on-going, relationship-focused programs that incorporate diverse activities. They may include off line or on line interaction and engagement or a combination of the two.
Extension and reporting outcomes of exchanges to the community
The first step in planning an exchange is for schools to determine the type and nature of exchange they would like to conduct. Schools may choose to find another school (or other schools) to exchange with, or to engage with local, international or on line/virtual communities. Schools may consider if similar exchanges have been conducted before by other schools; or is there research that may be relevant to their proposed exchange; how will the success of the exchange program be evaluated? what data or evidence will be collected before, during and after the exchange program; and how will successes and findings be promoted beyond the school.
Most importantly, exchange programs should be process-centered. As such, the schools (including staff, students, parents and community members involved) should collaboratively determine the goals, content and intended outcomes of their program, including the learning and social outcomes that they hope to achieve. Goals often change as the program evolves and so programs should be flexible enough to allow for this change and, importantly, incorporate teaching and learning around the value of flexibility within the collaborative and inter cultural contexts.
Donations
We thank everyone who sustains us: all the simple people who supported us through direct donations, companies which are sponsoring our activities, the partners from around the world with whom we are developing new projects.
With your help, so far we have initiated and developed activities related to education and sport, which implied over 500 young people, through our international partnerships.
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Mr. Sunil Joshi (President) Canada
10 Arctic Willow Road, Brampton, Ontario L6R 3K8, Canada
Telephone Number: 647-290-7998
Email: [email protected]
Mr. Yogesh K. Bharadwaj (Vice President, India’s Branch)
Email: [email protected]
Tel: 91-120-4644019
Mobile: 91-9811059039
Anand Mathura (Chairman / CEO)
Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Email: [email protected]