Beyond its specific utility to support newcomers, the fair also served as a reminder that the plight of Ukrainians hadn’t been forgotten in the months since…
That, at least, was hopefully the case at the job fair held at the Ukrainian Orthodox Church on Byron Avenue last Wednesday afternoon, when upwards of 200 Ukrainians, each displaced by Russia’s invasion of their country and in need of work, met with 15 area employers, many facing a pandemic-led labour shortage, to see if the skills of the former matched the needs of the latter.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
“I’m a newcomer myself,” she added of her arrival last April, “so I know what people here are struggling with, with the language, with finding a place to live. It’s very sad.” “I believe, with neighbours like the Russians, it’s never going to be over,” Kinash said. “We feel and really appreciate the help of all Canadians. This is a very welcoming nation.”
Wednesday’s job fair followed ESL and résumé-writing courses that the Ukrainian Orthodox Church had hosted in recent months.Svitlana Marchuk and her two daughters live with a host family in Carleton Place. She came to the area last June from Dnipro, in central Ukraine, where she worked in the municipal government in analytics. She was at Wednesday’s job fair, she said, to find skilled work that would allow her to get her own apartment and pay for her and her daughters’ living expenses.
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