Yoon Joo Hong-McParland, who operates two companies in Orillia, received the Immigrant Entrepreneur award at digital occasion
An Orillia entrepreneur and a pupil from the Lakehead campus in Orillia have been amongst these acknowledged on the eighth annual County of Simcoe Newcomer Recognition Awards that have been streamed just about for the primary time.
Award winners have been joined by native immigration companions, elected officers and visitor speaker Indira Naidoo-Harris to have a good time variety and its constructive impacts on native communities. Thursday’s occasion featured a cultural efficiency by the Bhangra Crew Ontario.
Ahmed Alasfar and Faten Alawad, the husband-and-wife duo behind Barrie meals firm Feast from the East, have been offered with the immigrant entrepreneur award. Throughout his speech on the digital ceremony, Alasfar thanked the Canadian authorities and his sponsors.
“It feels actually good and I’m very pleased with myself and my household,” Alasfar stated after the ceremony.
The couple opened their very own restaurant in Syria in 2011. Nonetheless, in 2012, when the battle in Syria escalated, Alasfar moved his household to Lebanon. The couple fled to Canada in 2015 as refugees, sponsored by a Barrie group. Since then, their meals has develop into a staple of the Barrie Farmers’ Market.
Along with working Feast from the East, Alasfar and Alawad every work between 35 and 30 hours per week at different jobs, in addition to caring for his or her six youngsters. Alasfar’s brother and his household additionally dwell in Barrie and assist with the restaurant operations.
Feast from the East boasts a Syrian Halal delicacies, together with gadgets reminiscent of rice, lamb and eggplant salad. Alasfar says the most well-liked dish might be the falafel, though he enjoys making baklava essentially the most.
Wanting ahead, Alasfar stated he hopes to save lots of sufficient cash to open a brick-and-mortar location for Feast from the East along with his brother. Lengthy-term, he needs to purchase a house for his household.
“It has been a dream of mine to share our meals with the world and I would like individuals to find out about our meals so we are able to open a restaurant sooner or later,” he stated. “I’m additionally engaged on bettering my English abilities, and at last, I wish to get Canadian citizenship within the close to future.”
Eight awards got out to have a good time the achievements of native immigrants, companies and group champions.
Immigrant Entrepreneur – Yoon Joo Hong-McParland
Hong-McParland operates two companies in Orillia: YJ Dance Match & Wellness and YJ SeoulFood.
She opened YJ DanceFit in 2014, beginning with a handful of purchasers understanding in her basement. In November 2019, she opened a brand new studio on Atherley Highway. Undeterred by the pandemic, she is providing programming by way of Zoom. YJSeoulFood has supplied home-cooked Korean delicacies on the Orillia Farmers’ Marketplace for 5 years.
She has participated within the Orillia Public Library’s How-to Competition, educating native residents how you can make kimchi, and variations reminiscent of sugar-free kimchi and vegan kimchi to assist residents with particular dietary wants.
Service Excellence – Rudy Grewal
Grewal is a current graduate of Lakehead College’s Honours Bachelor of Arts and Science with a focus in human nature specializing in psychology and sociology.
As a pupil, Grewal devoted a good portion of his time to assist pupil life, and was an necessary liaison with the College’s Workplace of Human Rights and Fairness, and Lakehead College Worldwide. He launched the Worldwide Day to Eradicate Racial Discrimination on the Orillia campus in 2019 by internet hosting a useful resource desk within the Studying Commons, main as much as the Worldwide Day to Eradicate Racial Discrimination.
In 2020, Rudy assisted with planning and facilitating a web-based dialogue group on systemic racism hosted by Lakehead College’s Workplace of Human Rights and Fairness. He co-chaired the #ITSTARTS marketing campaign for Lakehead College and promoted occasions reminiscent of the variety themed paint night time and multicultural campus tour.
Neighborhood Champion – Jason McKague
McKague is a Barrie resident and enterprise proprietor. He volunteers as a mentor with the Job Discovering Membership for Immigrants at Georgian School and assists newcomer job seekers by offering details about the native labour market and connecting newcomers with native job alternatives.
He additionally participates in networking and mentoring occasions and has met job seekers one-to-one to assist them of their job search.
Neighborhood Champion – Samah Hadaia
Hadaia arrived in Barrie along with her household in June 2017. She is initially from Syria, however lived in Jordan and Cyprus earlier than settling in Canada.
In 2017 she volunteered to assist translate educating paperwork into Arabic for Georgian School. In 2018, she joined the Ethnic Mosaic Alliance because the board secretary.
In 2018, she labored with the Barrie Public Library, and the Job Discovering Membership for Immigrants to create a drop-in profession dialog circle for newcomers. She has additionally labored with the Barrie Public library’s multicultural e-book membership.
Ethno Cultural Group – Barrie Indian Affiliation
The Barrie Indian Affiliation is an ethno-cultural group created to culturally assist immigrants from India and to share the richness of their tradition with their local people for the previous ten years. Celebrations reminiscent of Holi and Diwali are organized and celebrated usually and have been open to all members of the group. The group offers a community to newcomers locally, specifically East Asian Worldwide College students from Georgian School.
Multiculturalism in Schooling – Educator: Lisa Boate
Boate is an itinerant English language learner useful resource trainer with the Simcoe County District Faculty Board.
As a part of her position in faculties, Lisa helps practices and insurance policies that enhance the expertise of newcomer households reminiscent of providing translated supplies and posting multilingual signage in faculties. Her affect on lecturers has elevated using twin language books in class libraries, celebrations of multilingualism, and using translation instruments in lecture rooms.
Multiculturalism in Schooling – Faculty: Boyne River Public Faculty
Multiculturalism and variety is embedded in all points of faculty life at Boyne River Public Faculty.
The college focuses workers skilled improvement on areas that assist the problems and challenges confronted by many newcomers.
The college has gone to nice lengths to contain the group in class council, father or mother spring occasion and celebrations and assemblies held on the faculty. Boyne River fosters a way of belonging by way of group circles, and intentional educating that honours language, heritage and tradition whereas addressing all types of exclusion, discrimination and inequality.
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