Barka delegates attend Surrey LIP (Local Immigration Partnership) Immigrant Advisory Roundtable Info Session

Several members of Barka Canada board attended the Surrey LIP info session calling on members of immigrant communities and  service groups to get involved in creating a strategic plan to assist newcomers to Canada in adjusting and adapting to their new Canadian life.   Continue reading

Surrey to get funding for homelessness prevention program

Surrey will be one of the communities to get money in the form of rent assistance for people in danger of becoming homeless. Both the federal and provincial governments are to contribute funding.

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Barka Foundation for Mutual Help wins European Civic Award

Barka Foundation has been awarded for supporting those most affected in the process of political transformation in Poland, and for popularizing the Social Economy in the world. One of the most important awards for outstanding citizens and organisations in the EU – the European Civic Award – will be presented to the Barka Foundation for Mutual Help. Justification and the nomination for this award was presented by MEP Agnieszka Kozłowska-Rajewicz. Continue reading

BARKA’s encounters with Japanese architects to create projects of support to communities hit by tsunami

BARKA’s encounters with Japanese architects to create projects of support to communities hit by tsunami

On the 16th of July representatives of Barka UK met with Ms Shizuka Hariu, director of Shizuka Hariu & Shin Hagiwara Architecture Scenography. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss possibilities of cooperation in the north-eastern coast of Japan, which in March 2011 was affected by the earthquake and tsunami.

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