Durham Dare Workshop

CCMW Durham Region had its first online workshop on December 4th led by Natalia Kassim-Fontenelle, Farzana Balapatel, and Kubra Mir. The workshop had over 40 participants. Thank you to Firdaus Ali, the Project Manager of the Dare project, Jasmine Ali-Gami for her technical support and CCMW National for their efforts in creating awareness of Islamophobia and Cyber bullying.

We were honoured to have Deputy Mayor Sterling Lee and Honourable Ryan Turnball MP of Whitby say a few words about the growing diverse population in Durham and their efforts to combat racism.

We would like to thank our community partner, Patricia Hines, Program Manager, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion from the Office of the CAO and Region of Durham for their support. Special thanks to Ward Councillors Whitby Maleeha Shaheed and Deidre Newman for attending the session along with Safa Khan from the office of the Finance Minister of Ontario Honourable Peter Bethlenfalvy, MPP for Pickering. Durham Region has booked more online sessions for the new year.

Some comments from the session:

This is such an amazing initiative really want to appreciate all of you for doing this. – Umbreen Akhtar

Amazing initiative. Thank you so much for working together and bringing more light to racism and Islamophobia.- Whitby Town Councillor Maleeha Shahid