The Accomplishments of the Local Immigration Partnerships and the Réseaux en immigration francophone – 2017

Nine conference participants posing in a hallway holding handwritten signs reading "Collaboration Go Team", "Concerned Resident", "Partners" and "Key Stakeholder".

A two-year pilot project called Recognition Counts is offering skilled, low-income newcomers loans of up to $10,000 with career and financial counselling to help them get their credentials recognized and put their skills back to work. […] The loan can also be used to buy tools of the trade, textbooks, pay tuition — whatever applicants need to get credentials recognition and working in their field, said Manitoba Immigration and Multiculturalism Minister Christine Melnick. “It’s very flexible.” The province is providing $250,000 in administrative funding for the program.

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