Témoignages


Veuillez prendre note que les opinions exprimées dans ces témoignages sont ceux des auteurs. Ils ne représentent pas nécessairement les positions, stratégies, opinions ou valeurs de Katimavik.
Katimavik a été pour moi une belle expérience et m'a permis d'apprendre ma langue seconde qui es l'anglais, j'ai pu travailler sur ma compétence de leadership ainsi qu'à être plus autonome, j'ai travailler dans des places que je n'aurais pas pu faire dans ma communauté actuelle car j'étais très gênée, j'ai pu aussi avoir une meilleure confiance en moi. En lire plus
Jade Ouellet Drayton Valley AB, Orangeville On, Chéticamp NS
Coming from Florida, I never realized just how interesting it would be to go into the heart of the Rocky Mountains in January. Trust me, it was tough. I once even announced to my Katima-family that I had chosen to leave the program. Thank God I stayed. I never would have been blessed with meeting such influential people, or gone dog sledding, or learned how to cook totally vegan. I never would have reached (an uncanny) level of comfort with twelve people I shared my days with. They literally brightened my life, every day. En lire plus
Kali Gough Canmore, AB
Katimavik has changed my life in more ways than I can express through one testimonial. The Katimavik program changes peoples lives and it surely changed mine. I signed up for this program to meet new people, discover Canada and to learn. For Katimavik I moved to Canmore, Alberta and was challenged to volunteer doing something I had no experience in. When the time came to go home the job I volunteered in was a career possibility for me. The 6 months I spent in Katimavik have changed my life in the best way possible and I will be forever grateful for the experience. En lire plus
Angela Bogren Canmore, Alberta
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Ce programme m’as permis de me découvrir moi-même, d’apprendre à plus me connaître, de forger ma personnalité et de savoir qui je suis dans un monde où tout vas trop vite, où les gens ne prennent plus le temps d’apprécier, de voir ce qui les entourent, de profiter des petites choses de la vie. Avec mon groupe, j'ai appris comment le bénévolat peut aider une personne ou une communauté entière. Les liens que j'ai avec mon groupe sont si forts que la plupart des gens qui n'ont pas fait le programme ne peuvent pas comprendre. En lire plus
Catherine Paquet Castlegar, Rimouski
Katimavik National Youth service programs are essential to youth, communities and Canada unity because it empowers the youth across the country by bringing west (English) together with the east (French); learning, developing and playing together. Which is an incredible opportunity to teach the youth about the different parts of the country, while learning tolerance for different communities. Here is how Katimavik had a profound impact on me as a parent. Two of my three children have done this program. The third will not be able to because the program has been shut down. En lire plus
Carol Morin
Katimavik-A letter

Without you I would have never heard of the Massey Lectures early enough. I would have never seen Wade Davis speak about the Wayfinders and be exposed, for the first time, to someone who spoke and wrote about things my heart felt but hadn’t the words to say. Like music being a constant, surrounding us all the time, the instrument is the tool which delivers it to the masses. Knowledge is the same. Out there: a constant. Wade Davis was the instrument for me. En lire plus
Meagan Zunti Yellowknife NWT, Terrace Bay ON, Montreal QU
To see such an amazing program discontinue really does bring disappointment to me. There is no other program I can find like this one, and to see the kind of impact it does for myself and a community is really huge. Being in the program has gotten me to discover more about myself and communities in Canada that I have never heard of before. I got involved with so many things I could not imagine myself doing before Katimavik. I really hope that this program will come back. Katimavik will forever be apart of me and I can never imagine my life without it. En lire plus
Chantel Ceralde Newmarket, ON / Richibucto, NB
Les programmes nationaux de service volontaire pour la jeunesse de Katimavik sont essentiels aux jeunes, aux communautés et au Canada.Voici comment Katimavik a eu une grande impacte sur moi.Tout d'abord après avoir eu un échec dans mes études j'ai décider de faire une pause et ayant toujours eu un penchant pour les langues j'ai décider de faire Katimavik. En lire plus
Simon Froment Montmagny,Qc-Bear-River N-Écosse- Mississippi Mills Ontario.
I never thought Katimavik would have such a profound impact on my life until after the program. Coming back to "reality" was a shock. My room, my house, my friends; I felt estranged from it all. I desparately wanted to go back to my Katima-house as soon as I got home. It's still not easy to be back to what was once normal life. Everything that happened over the last six months now seems like it was a dream; a crazy, amazing, long, and emotional dream. I made good friends, all of whom I will remember and miss for the rest of my life. En lire plus
Kate Spiers Thunder Bay and Quebec
Katimavik National Youth service programs are essential to youth, communities and Canada because it offers real world experiences to youth in a way that is not available through other programs. Katimavik has changed my life because had I not gone through the Katimavik program, this summer (of the year 2012) I would have gotten engaged and eventually married to a man who was not the right person for me. Katimavik made me realize that i wasn't in a healthy relationship, and therefore gave me the courage to end the three year relationship. En lire plus
Shelby Rollefson Canada