1. Address: Group members:
1008 Bathurst Street Shuyi Cen
Toronto, ON M5R Lili Chen
3G7 Aiseosa Enehizena
Between DuPont Tamana Qazzizadah
St. and Bloor St. Margarette Samaroo

2. HISTORY and MANDATE
In 1968, started by a church, as a Boys and
Girls Club for teens, and was called Christian
Reform Inner City Ministry.
In 1978, started as helping with refugee
Mission: helping all people
Our vision: changing lives
Mandate: The Lighthouse demonstrates
God's love by offering unconditional
hospitality, by sharing our resources and by
helping people in need. We offer an
atmosphere of respect, dignity and

3. SERVICES OFFERED
Counseling
Immigrant
Settlement/Refugee/Newcomers
Children's Programs – Summer Camps –
Vietnamese, Hispanic and Chinese
Family Camps- Entire family (Vietnamese,
Hispanic and Chinese)
Language – ESL classes
Parenting Workshop -Parenting skills

4. SERVICES MOST NEEDED
What circumstances bring people to
the Lighthouse :
-Being a refugee
-New comers
-Counselling
-Children’s Aid Society sends people
-Children Programs
-Food Bank
It is hard to say what services are most
needed. However, it might be the Food

5. AFTER RECEIVING HELP FROM THE
PROGRAM
Some people:
- return as sponsors of the program
-return as volunteers
-Some become settled and move o
-are lost track of

6. CHALLENGE
Language Bias: Clients are from different
countries
Funding: Donations come from
individuals, churches and businesses. This,
however, is not enough. The Government
does not give any support to this
organization.
They need approximately $321,000 to
operate

7. DREAMS
-If funding was not an issue, a dream would
be to build many Lighthouses around the
city.
-To serve over 2000 people