THE KAREN COMMUNITY OF CANADA (KCC) WAS FORMED TO:

To act as the representative of the Karen community in the multicultural group and other cultural, social or political organizations.

To promote public awareness for human right situation in Karen State in Burma and the consequences of human rights violation by Burmese Army against Karen ethnic people.

To represent the Karen Community and participate in forums and conferences at national and international level in order to achieve peace, social justice and Human Rights for the Karen in Burma and abroad

Objective:

The objectives of Karen Community of Canada establishment. To create a forum to promote better relationship among Karen families who came to Canada from different backgrounds and different reasons. Karen people will able to share, exchange the ideas in this forum and help each other, and to find a common ground to set up Karen national unity. To promote and maintain Karen culture and customs by celebrating national heritage days on special occasions. Karen people will be able to maintain our customs, culture and symbols by performing cultural events annually in regular basic. Those activities will help with racial relationship with other communities from different backgrounds and more importantly, to meet the goal of Karen national capacity building.

OUR MISSION

Karen community development and advocacy works are our goals and it will be our shared commitment throughout Canada since over 3000 Karen refugees from Thai-Border came to Canada in 2006.

 OUR VISION

The Karen Community of Canada is committed community development and dedicates community resources across Canada to ensure Karen community development goal is translated into practice.