Women’s Leadership and Development
We believe that women are the heart of any community. They are natural leaders as caregivers, homemakers and household-managers, unpaid counselors, healers, event organizers and community developers. Yet their leadership skills and roles often remain unrecognized and under-appreciated.
As a result, migrant women in Canada encounter obstacles in achieving self-actualization and securing meaningful employment, leading to underemployment and overrepresentation in precarious, low-wage work.
Our Women’s Leadership and Development Programs recognize and support the natural leadership abilities of our participants and are designed to extend the learning of English language into the acquisition of personal growth, leadership and other transferable skills to thrive and succeed in Canada.
We currently have the following programs in this area:
Meet our Women’s Leadership and Development Team.
WLD Newsletter
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27,502
Women and children served
Since 1975, PIRS served 17,716 women and 9,116 children and counting.
84
Women trained
84 women completed training programs in 2023 to become more effective leaders in their codmmunities.
3,679
Food hampers distributed
448 people continue to be served weekly through the emergency Food Hub.
We need donors like you to help newcomer women and their children thrive in Canada.
