Meet Ainara

Meet Ainara

Meet Ainara. She is a volunteer with CIWA’s Volunteer Program and November’s Volunteer of the Month. Ainara Serrano Saez was born in Spain, raised in Andorra and had also lived in France. She has a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration and worked in the area of...
Meet Saifan

Meet Saifan

Meet Saifan. She is the Program Coordinator of the Pre-Employment Skills program at CIWA. Saifan joined CIWA as an administrative assistant in November of 2012 immediately after completing the Office Administration Training at CIWA. For over 9 years now, Saifan has...
Sheree Lyn

Sheree Lyn

Meet Sheree Lyn. She is a volunteer with CIWA’s Food Service Training and October’s Volunteer of the Month. Sheree Lyn Millado is originally from the Philippines. Prior to moving to Calgary in 2014, she lived and worked in Afghanistan for 4 years. She has a Bachelor...
Meet Israel

Meet Israel

Meet Israel. He is a volunteer at CIWA’s Cross Cultural Parenting Program and September’s Volunteer of the Month. Israel Rodriguez Miralles was born and raised in Mexico. He, along with his wife and two children, moved to Canada in 2016. They lived in Montreal for 2...
Meet Nola

Meet Nola

Featuring the people behind CIWA’s governance: Meet Nola Heale, CIWA’s Board Vice Chair and Treasurer, and more. Nola Heale joined CIWA as a non-director member of the finance committee in 2020. Through her role, she feels inspired to support the vast number of...
Meet Neha

Meet Neha

Meet Neha. She is the Program Coordinator for the Youth Mentorship Program at CIWA. Neha joined CIWA in 2020 as she was drawn to CIWA’s ideology and philosophy of work, including the agency’s holistic approach to newcomer services. As a newcomer woman...