Position Description:

The Project Manager - Licensed to Learn will be responsible for overseeing all project managerial, fundraising, and communications activities. The Project Manager will be based at IDRF's headquarters in Toronto.

On May 15th 2013, IDRF hosted the first Open House at its new location at 908 The East Mall . The event was attended by many IDRF supporters including local politicians. All attendees were warmly welcomed by IDRF's Board of Directors, IDRF staff, and IDRF Regional Representatives.

To see pictures from IDRF's Open House, click below.

Please note our new address:

908 The East Mall
1st Floor
Toronto, Ontario
Canada M9B 6K2

All telephone numbers and extensions will remain the same.

Click here to make a secure online donation or call our toll free number 1-866-497-4373. Tax-deductible receipts will be issued to anyone donating $10 or more.

CURRENT PROJECT
This project aims to provide training on food preparation and distribution to un(der)employed, vulnerable Canadian newcomer women; to provide isolated newcomer seniors with access to healthy food; and to promote healthy nutrition for seniors in Toronto.

CURRENT PROJECT
More than 85% of Pakistani children are enrolled in public government-run schools. Now in it’s fifth year, this demonstration project aims to reform one government school to serve as a model site for educational policy reforms in public schools across the province.

CURRENT PROJECT
This project will provide marginalized newcomer and refugee women with the training and skills necessary for sustainable employment, culminating in the establishment of a women’s sewing collective enterprise.

PLANNED ACTIVITIES:
This is a two-phase project. In Year 1, participants undertake an 8-month training in sewing skills, and receive instruction in business English and entrepreneurship, with the aim of enabling these women to pursue employment opportunities in tailoring and garment construction. Women who complete the program successfully and wish to work independently receive a sewing machine to make their business venture feasible. In Year 2, selected invited participants from year 1 complete a more rigorous training, and work together to develop an independent sewing collective business.

IDRF was started as an organization in the mid eighties as a way for Canadian Muslims to respond and help famine affected people in Somalia and Ethiopia. We have worked in this region, on and off, ever since.

In 2011, when Somalia was once again devastated by famine, IDRF rolled out several relief aid projects. Today the region continues to remain vulnerable to climactic uncertainty.

[Photo Sources: Azad Lashkari/Reuters & Hussein Malla/Associated Press]

Over 85,000 refugees (OCHA) have fled Syria in the wake of the persistent internal conflict. Over 28,000 of those individuals have fled north to Turkey, more than half of which are aged 17 and under. These individuals are currently being housed and supported in four large camp centres. Refugee influx into Turkey from Syria continues to rise as the situation grows increasingly unstable, and thousands of refugees, displaced from their homes, rely on the support of others to persevere.