Kitchener-Waterloo Multicultural Centre Moving to New Home in January 2022.

Jul. 14

(Kitchener, ON 14-July-2021)

After 15 years at 102 King Street West in Kitchener's downtown core, the Kitchener-Waterloo Multicultural Centre announced today that it has chosen a location for its new office.

The 54-year old organization will be moving to 715 Fischer-Hallman Road after construction on their new offices is completed later this year.

"We selected the Fischer-Hallman Business Centre as it was ideally situated to serve newcomers to Canada, many of whom live on Kitchener's west side. It is also big enough to consolidate our two downtown offices into one location " said Lucia Harrison, CEO.

"We sold our downtown property prior to the pandemic and have been serving all of our clients remotely since last March. We stayed open - online - from the start of all of this and will continue to serve our clients by phone and video chat until the new office is ready and from community locations like local libraries as we move to step 3."

Harrison added that she hoped construction on their new offices would be finished soon and encouraged people to check their website, www.kwmulticultural.ca, for regular updates..

The Kitchener-Waterloo Multicultural Centre - known to many for its annual festival in Victoria Park - provides a wide variety of services for new immigrants to the community and operates an interpretation and translation business that saw service volumes rise to nearly 20,000 service requests last year.

Its Conversational English Program, which draws hundreds of volunteers from all over Waterloo Region, is currently looking for new volunteers to help newcomers practice speaking English.