Written by: Sarah Smith, SportWORKS Officer, Sport for Newcomers Edmonton Hello Everyone! The last time you heard from Edmonton was in 2020 from our SportWORKS Officer Kirstina Turner. While much has changed since those days (including an increased vocabulary of pandemic related words), Action for Healthy Communities (AHC) is back providing sport opportunities to newcomers […]
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95 days till the games
Written by: Emily Metituk, Canadian SportWORKS Officer, Trinidad and Tobago Commonwealth Youth Games Support Project April has been the busiest month by far. At the start of the month my co-worker and I launched the the promotional caravan on Commonwealth Day. We celebrated with the unveiling of our games mascot Cocoyea the leatherback turtle. Our […]
S4N Charlottetown – Newcomer Girls Try Flag Football Session
Written by: Jordyn Connell, SportWORKS Officer, Sport for Newcomers Charlottetown Hello everyone! We kicked off our SportWORKS – Sport for Newcomers Initiative program this week in PEI. We started off with a come try flag football two-hour session on Monday April 17th in the evening for newcomer girls from grades 4-12. We also opened the […]
Trinidad Life Update
Written by: Emily Metituk, Canadian SportWORKS Officer – Trinidad & Tobago Good Day! It’s officially been 2 months that I’ve been living in Trinidad there’s been ups, downs, and life lessons. Here’s my little update from the last 2 months. Working at the Trinbago 2023 Youth Commonwealth Games has been quite eventful. The work and […]
What Brings Me to Trinidad & Tobago
Written by: Emily Metituk, Canadian SportWORKS Officer – Trinidad & Tobago Good Day and Welcome, My name is Emily, I’ve been in Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago for a few weeks now. I have lots to share about my adventures and the work I’m doing here but first I want to talk about why […]
Goodbye Botswana, hello next adventure!
Written by: Jordan Krauchek and Cliff Miyaji, Canadian SportWORKS Officers, Botswana We can’t believe it’s time to write our final blog post, and our time in Gaborone is almost over. Our 3-month practicum here in Gaborone felt ephemeral. This last month we finalized our LTAD framework, implementation plan, summary and recommendation documents. On November 18th, we […]
Did Someone Say Lunch?
Written by: Hailey Pewtress, Canadian SportWORKS Officer, Rwanda Blake, the other Canadian SportWORKS Officer, departed back to Canada this month. For Blakes’s farewell, our supervisor invited us to a ‘car-free zone’, which is a street blocked off to cars and completely lined with restaurants and cafes. We had a delicious plate of East African pilau […]
Safaris, Sunsets and Sunburns
Written by: Cliff Miyaji and Jordan Krauchek, Canadian SportWORKS Officers Greetings from Gaborone! We’re just over halfway through our time in Botswana. Time feels like it is passing by very quickly. We can still remember landing in Gaborone as if it were last week. We’ve had some fantastic experiences and memories during our short time here. Our […]
Planes, Trains, and Motos
Written by: Blake Nouwen and Hailey Pewtress Welcome to our life in Rwanda. We are Blake and Hailey, Canadian SportWORKS Officers from Mount Royal University in Calgary, Alberta. We are beyond excited to share with you our impressions, experiences, and work from Kigali, Rwanda. We started our journey going from Calgary to Portland, to having […]
Monkeys on Hole 2!
Written by: Cliff Miyaji and Jordan Krauchek Hello Everyone! Cliff and Jordan here. We are the new Canadian SportWORKS Officers in Gaborone, Botswana. Unfortunately, we had a rocky start to our trip; the airline lost Cliff’s luggage, while Jordan lost personal items in London. We had delayed flights which led to missed flights in addition to getting […]