Activities
Welcome to your home, to your community, to your family!
Welcome to your home, to your community, to your family!
Welcoming and integrating newcomers are key concerns for FUCA Ontario. One of the major challenges during and after this welcome lies in our ability to assist any newcomer from Fulani communities around the world. Through our benevolence based on excellent communication (Kô sadhi mon kô tooli mon), we are motivated by the desire to bring help to those who need it.
This is why you will find volunteers who will set up adequate conditions to direct you towards more appropriate structures to facilitate your installation in
one of the towns of the Province.
After your referral to newcomer organizations, FUCA may contact you to inquire about the progress of your settlement process, for example,
your applications to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada and your administrative procedures for obtaining certain documents (health card, work permit,
drive, etc.)
FUCA could also invite you to participate in its various community activities during which information about the Province, and that of the City of Toronto in particular, could be shared in various fields (Education, Health, Transport, Employment, etc.).
In short, you will never feel alone.
Welcome to your home, to your community, to your family!
The second fundamental objective is to ensure the success and academic success of our children. To succeed, members have started a non-profit volunteer to provide homework help for our children. To this end, several teacher members of our association participate every weekend in its volunteer activities.
In August 2020, FUCA was awarded a $5000 grant in response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
In March 2021, FUCA received a grant of $5,714 under the Mental Health Support Strategy
related to the effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic
With the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic; one of the main challenges the FUCA-Ontario community faced boiled down to food and financial insecurity. In its response to this pandemic, the City of Toronto has set up a micro-grant project aimed at black communities in the city.
In the execution of this project, our partner CEE (Center for Young Black Professionals) and BTTF (Black To The Future) has made available to FUCA-Ontario an amount of $5,000 to help those affected by the impact of COVID-19. This grant has enabled the FUCA Executive Office to help families by distributing food, school supplies and protective equipment
(Masks and disinfectants…).
Knowing that mental health is the engine of our emotional, psychological and social well-being, one of the objectives of FUCA is to provide fundamental psychological support through a dietary supplement
health, mental health exercises accompanied by information and awareness workshops for members of the community faced with a mental health problem related to the long-lasting effects of
the COVID-19 pandemic.
That's why as part of its ongoing support plan, the City of Toronto has implemented a grant project run by our partner CEE (Centre for Young Black Professionals) and the BTTF (Black To The Future) that put available to FUCA an amount of $5,714 to help people mentally affected by
the impact of COVID-19.
This grant, which was executed on March 30, 2021, enabled the FUCA Executive Office to provide financial support to families/individuals through gift cards, purchases of Equipment
Personal Protection and computer tools (iPad). In addition, a sum of $3,500 was added by our faithful partner CEE (Centre for Young Black Professionals) and the BTTF (Black To The Future) to organize awareness sessions on mental health and psychoeducation on the management of stress related to
COVD-19. These two workshops were led by video conference by a mental health expert through the Resilience Institute.
Provide support to our members
One of Fuca-Ontario's fundamental objectives is to provide moral and financial support to its members during life events, including birth, marriage, graduation and death. Speaking of birth, the executive office informs the members of the arrival of a new-born child in the household of the member concerned while indicating the address and the telephone numbers in common agreement of course with the family concerned. Then, a delegation led by the members of the executive office will go as soon as possible to the home of the happy parents to congratulate the family.
Therefore, an envelope from the fund and the goodwill of the members will be given to the family during the visit. The principle remains the same for marriage.
Regarding the graduation, at least one member of the executive office will come in person to participate in the official graduation ceremony. A symbolic gift of encouragement will be given to the student.
As for the death, it is left freely to active members to present condolences according to their availability. However, the members of the executive office will go fairly quickly to the bereaved family to offer condolences and offer moral support. Sometimes members are required to help with funerals.
