Our Programs
We offer quality inclusive education around the continents, and we are Primarily working with Nuer School Board of Education on the project of developing a new school curriculum for Elementary schools to meet the needs of all learners. In Ottawa, one of the most multicultural and multilingual cities in Canada, our committed teachers have been delivering lessons in Nuer Language to preserve the language and cultural heritage.
Our Kids Ottawa Homework Club is an after school program that helps students from grade one to grade 12 with all varied subjects. Our dedicated volunteers are comprised of university and college students with specialized knowledge and experiences to offer in their areas of expertise including Math, French, English, Biology, Chemistry, Physic, etc.
The Youth Cooking and Cultural Integration (YCCI) project promotes awareness of good eating habits and more importantly provides basic cooking integration skills for many children in the refugee and immigrant communities- build a strong foundation to preserve cultural food and eat healthy food in their respective communities. This unique program also brings children and youth from ages of 7-15 together to learn, socialize, interact, and share their knowledge with one another during these four consecutive months of utilizing and mastering personal skills, etc
The August Student Dinner (ASD) is a program that supports youth from high school graduates, college and university students within the South Sudanese and immigrant communities in Ottawa. The main objective is to empower and encourage students about education in order to be prepared, focused, or refocused on their setting and promising goals before September classes. For high school graduates, it is the right time for them to interact with one another and share their experiences from high school and also learn from senior students who have already enrolled in their respective programs. The dinner brings all youth together including those who are still in junior high and high school so that they can learn from the speeches and presentations by experiencing and witnessing all these activities.
The objective of the Sunday Thok Naath Class is to empower some of the Nuer community members who have previously had no time to learn how to read and write in Nuer/Thok Naath. Nuer School Board of Education (NSBE) and teachers have evaluated and decided to address these visible issues by offering classes on Sunday evenings to those who are willingly interested to pursue their learning interests in reading and writing in Nuer. This is another way to transfer knowledge to the community members who didn’t have a chance to practice and comprehend the language thoroughly in a formal learning environment. This will indeed help participants to master Thok Naath and be able to teach Nuer Languages as a teacher and read other materials in Thok Naath such as The Nuer Bible, Nuer Hymnal Books and other materials that are written in Nuer.
The Kids on Vacation (KV) is a two-week day camp facilitated by ASSLI in providing outdoor activities for kids' ages 5-14 in the immigrant and refugee communities in Ottawa and surrounding areas. The (KV) will give kids an opportunity to play outside the aftermath of this frustrated countrywide- covid-19 lockdown that has had a terrible impact on children. Additionally, it’s another way to bring kids together to explore and revise the historic sites in the city before returning back to school. The program starts on August 9, 2021, and will end on August 20, 2021. It’s three days a week on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays from 10:00 am to 2:30 pm. Our dedicated staff and volunteers are comprised of university, college, and high school students who have various skills and capacities in different areas.
The Youth Leadership Training (YLT) has various components such as employment training, social and racial awareness, and communication skills that will enable young people to overcome challenges and barriers in the immigrant and refugee communities, etc.
We are developing a new school curriculum, interpreting and translating English into other South Sudanese languages and also South Sudanese main languages and dialects into English using both "formal equivalence and dynamic equivalence" to serve the vast majority of our community aboard and in South Sudan.