Katimavik

See also: Katimavik (homonymy)

Katimavik is a programme of voluntariate for Canadian youth founded in 1977 by Jacques Hébert.

This program addresses to the Canadian young people between 17 and 21 years, enabling them to travel, learn the second official language and to acquire new experiments of work and life of group. From one 9 months duration, it allows a hundred groups of 11 participants of living in three various provinces and to have three various voluntary experiences of work.

The program

Katimavik, it is the most important program youth national of the Canada. A program which gives the chance to young Canadian from 17 to 21 years to learn by voluntary work, in three Provinces of the Canada. More than 35 hours per week of voluntariate is assigned with the participant. Katimavik défraie the transport costs, of housing, food, the activities, and grants even an allowance of 3$ per day.

Katimavik wants to say " meeting place” in Inuktitut.

In general, a group is composed of a person of the Colombia-British or Yukon; of two people of the Meadows, Territories of the North-West or Nunavut; of four people of the Ontario, of three people of the Quebec and finally, a person of the Atlantic . Katimavik, it is thus the chance to learn its language second.

Moreover, to each rotation, the participants must spend two weeks in a family of reception, to share its culture and to learn that from the locality.

It is the Senator Québécois Jacques Hébert; personal friend of late the Pierre Elliott Trudeau which founded the program in 1977. Since, it is more than 25.000 young people of the Canada who lived the Katimavik experiment; From now on, it is less than 1200 young Canadians per year who can take part in the program. It is the Gouvernement of Canada, via Patrimoine Canada which finances the program.

Criteria of admissibility

  1. To be old 17 to 21 years the day when the program begins

  2. To have the Canadian citizenship or a certificate of immigrant received
  3. Être in physical good health
  4. Passer a test to check the legal backgrounds
  5. never not to have taken part in Katimavik before.
== #Être ready (E) to live an experiment which leaves the ordinary one! ==

The disappearance of Katimavik in 1986 and its return in 1995

In 1986, the preserving Gouvernement of Brian Mulroney ceased the financing of Katimavik. To dispute the decision of the Canadian government to abolish the financing, Jacques Hébert, creator of the program, made the hunger strike in the corridors of the Sénat during 21 days. However, it was unable to save this program which made it possible to help of the hundreds of Canadian communities and to annually enrich the life of more than one thousand of Canadian young people . It is in 1995, thanks to the liberal government of Jean Chrétien, that the program which been able to take again its activities after ten years of absence. Between 1995 and 2005, it is nearly 10.000 Canadian young people from 17 to 21 years which took part in the program. However, the current government re-examines the program. and it could be well that despite everything these positive aspects, the financing is cut to him. December 20th, 2006 the government decided to renew the financing of Katimavik for another year.

The father of Katimavik

The founder of the program, the senator Jacques Hébert, is an enthusiastic defender of the governmental programs of young Canadian. It is its engagement with regard to the young people, both in Canada and in the rest of the world, which justified it to create Jeunesse Canada Monde in 1971, then, six years later, Katimavik. See a video report

Bonds

  • Katima what

  • Official site of Katimavik
  • To travel with Katimavik

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