SYDNEY, N.S. — A bit of Down East hospitality has meant a lot to a pair of women from West Africa who recently arrived in Cape Breton. Chizoba Umohuwa and ...
Cape Breton Regional Municipality Mayor Amanda McDougall, from left, shares a hug with Chizoba Umohuwa and Ovwigho Aghogha during an event at Centre 200 on Tuesday. Chris Connors/Cape Breton PostSYDNEY, N.S. — A bit of Down East hospitality has meant a lot to a pair of women from West Africa who recently arrived in Cape Breton.
Matt Swan, from left, executive director of the Nova Scotia Power Makerspace located at the New Dawn Centre for Social Innovation on Nepean Street, speaks with Nigerian students Chizoba Umohuwa and Ovwigho Aghogha. Chris Connors/Cape Breton Post - ccAfter sharing a brief chat and warm hug with Umohuwa and Aghogha, CBRM Mayor Amanda McDougall said that Cape Breton’s population has begun to climb for the first time in 40 years.
“The library is a good point of contact — a lot of people associate the library as a place where they can come and ask anything and we make a comfortable and free space for everybody, so often we’re the people who get questions where we have to connect them to other people in the community or appropriate professionals, so that’s one key focus of what we’re providing to people,” she said.
“Every person who comes into the centre has different needs and they’re at a different point in their life. They may be a young couple coming in with children and they need to get their children into school, they may be an international student needing a social insurance number or find out where they can go to access some social conversation clubs, or English language resources, so we refer to pretty much everybody in this room.
“In addition to welcoming newcomers and having them visit these tables, I think it’s also a really good opportunity for us as service providers to connect more with each other, to better understand each other’s work so that we can better refer people and look for those opportunities to collaborate and work together,” she said. “It takes an event like this and creating this space intentionally. It sometimes doesn’t just happen on its own.
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