About Our Chapter
Since 2010, HOPE worldwide Canada in Montreal has been dedicated to helping vulnerable people to acquire the tools and knowledge needed to improve their daily lives in Quebec. Since its founding, HOPE worldwide in Montreal has offered a back-to-school school bag program as well as Christmas or Easter baskets to families in financial difficulty.
Since then, we partnership with Côte d'Ivoire where we helped build a school offering all levels from kindergarten to grade six. Subsequently, a chicken farm project developed in partnership with HOPE worldwide in Haiti helped support the village of HOPE in Croix-des-Bouquets in Haiti for a few years after the 2010 earthquake.
Local collaboration with Accueil Bonneau, Ronald McDonald House and now the Welcome Hall Mission, have enabled our volunteers to serve thousands of homeless people and parents of sick children. Finally, at the end of July 2021, we celebrated the first anniversary of the Pratiquons le français au Québec workshops, which consist in offering free French conversation groups once a week to Quebec immigrants in order to facilitate their integration into our culture.
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Anne-Marie Racine
Montreal Chapter Director
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Anne-Marie Racine currently serves as co-director of the Montreal Chapter of HOPE worldwide Canada. For several years, she had the privilege to serve as a member of its committee and be a volunteer. Professionally, Anne-Marie has been working as a psychologist for over 20 years in settings such as federal penitentiaries and private clinics; she also served in community centers and delivered rehabilitation programs. On an international level, she volunteered with HOPE worldwide in an orphanage in Haiti and has provided psychosocial support and workshops on post-traumatic stress (in Haiti after the 2010 earthquake, in Abidjan after the 2011 civil war and, more recently through videoconference to a Haitian community during the 2023 Humanitarian crisis). On a more personal level, Anne-Marie enjoys nature and has a particular interest in integrating art to make psychotherapeutic principles more accessible to teenagers.