{"id":41892,"date":"2022-03-07T12:19:00","date_gmt":"2022-03-07T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/?p=41892"},"modified":"2022-11-11T14:58:56","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T19:58:56","slug":"women-who-work-to-raise-up-other-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.centraide-mtl.org\/en\/blog\/women-who-work-to-raise-up-other-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Women who work to raise up other women"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Women make up the majority of the workforce in the community sector. They play a crucial role in improving the lives of other women, who also make up the bulk of people who use the services of community agencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To mark International Women’s Day,<\/strong> we spoke to five community workers who help groups of women most at risk of poverty, such as single mothers, senior women, immigrant or racialized women, and Indigenous women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Support for these women gives them greater independence, improves their living conditions, and even helps them leave violent environments.<\/h3>\n\n\n
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Now is the time to give a voice to women who can raise other women up. <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n
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\n Val\u00e9rie<\/span> Larouche<\/span> <\/div>\n
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\n Executive Director of M\u00e8res avec pouvoir <\/div>\n
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Val\u00e9rie Larouche<\/strong> has directed M\u00e8res avec pouvoir<\/strong> for almost 10 years. She is very familiar with the challenges faced by the young mothers at her agency, as she herself had to juggle the roles of single mother and student at one time.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n Manoucheka<\/span> C\u00e9leste<\/span> <\/div>\n
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\n Executive Director of Mains Utiles <\/div>\n
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Manoucheka C\u00e9leste <\/strong>is the founder and director of Mains Utiles<\/strong>. Originally from Haiti, she immigrated to Quebec in 2006 when she was 28 years old. A lawyer by training, she is also passionate about fashion, as she studied fashion design and then couture. With help from an advisor from the CDEC (community economic development corporation), she set up Main Utiles<\/strong> in 2013 to help immigrant women in Saint-L\u00e9onard.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n Diane<\/span> L\u00e9vesque<\/span> <\/div>\n
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\n Staff Member, Carrefour d’information pour a\u00een\u00e9s, CATAL (Comit\u00e9 d’animation du troisi\u00e8me \u00e2ge de Laval) <\/div>\n
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Diane L\u00e9vesque<\/strong> is a staff member at the Carrefour d’information pour a\u00een\u00e9s <\/strong>of CATAL<\/strong>. Every year, this program meets the specific needs of about 50 seniors and runs on-site clinics to do the income taxes of over 225 people living at seniors’ residences, HLM or CHSLD.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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\n Javiera<\/span> Arroyo<\/span> and<\/span> Rachel<\/span> Jordan<\/span> <\/div>\n
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\n Javiera Arroyo, Director, and Rachel Jordan, intervenante au Centre des femmes de Montr\u00e9al. <\/div>\n
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Javiera Arroyo<\/strong> and Rachel Jordan<\/strong> both work at the Women’s Centre of Montreal, <\/strong>the former as director of frontline services and the latter as a staff member in the Indigenous Women’s Support Program<\/strong>.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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