Michaëlle Jean Centre for Global and Community Engagement

“Community engagement allows you to make a real difference in the lives of people, to make the world a better place,” says Carlie Boisvert, a third-year student studying biomedical sciences at the Faculty of Science. After realizing the extent to which postsecondary education can change a student’s perspective on the world and open up a myriad of possibilities, Carlie had the bright idea of creating Projet-T.

Karianne Dion, of St. Albert, Ontario, started her honours in psychology at the University of Ottawa in September 2015.  Like all Ontario students, Dion completed 40 hours of volunteer work in high school.  But she only really got into volunteering after her first year of university, having understood what it could mean to her personal and career development.

In 2016, Anna Logie woke up to views of Frobisher Bay and rolling snow-capped hills in Iqaluit, Nunavut. During her first two months in Canada’s North, Logie has learned how to craft a sealskin hat, has tried her hand at ice-fishing, and has hiked the tundra near the “Road to Nowhere.”

The Community Service Learning (CSL) program has been offered on campus for 10 years now. Laura Ambrosio, an FLS instructor at the Official Languages and Bilingualism Institute (OLBI), has been a champion of the program since its early days.