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Canada Bureau for African and Caribbean Immigrants (CBACI)
According to Statistics Canadian children who face financial barriers are often excluded from opportunities at school and sometimes do not have the same access to supports that help them succeed. Many Black youth feel a post-secondary education is out of their reach. . In 2015, a survey of Black Canadian youth ages 15 to 25 showed that 94% would like to complete a university degree (compared to 82% across other groups), but only 59.9% thought it was possible. In comparison, 78.8% of other racial groups surveyed believed a post-secondary education was achievable. (Slaughter, G., & Singh, M. (2020, June 7). This feeling would undoubtedly be accentuated for young people who are born of Black African immigrants.
This is where CBACI programming comes in; Our aim is to create programs which seek to encourage, facilitate and promote staying on at school as far as possible for young people from the Black immigrant communities where we work. Working with institutions of Higher learning and city, provincial, Territorial and Federal authorities, we will initiate, facilitate and assist in setting up careers fairs, info sessions at schools as well as being part of any other initiatives aimed at encouraging Black immigrant youth to stay in school. We will also seek to partner with any scholarship, bursary and funding entities to assist them to have access to the young people in these communities.