Sasha
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Nine Resources to Learn about Kamloops History
The City of Kamloops website provides the following information about Kamloops history : “The Kamloops area has been inhabited by the Secwépemc and Nlaka’pamux peoples, who have lived here for close to 10,000 years. The fur trade arrived in Kamloops in 1811 when three traders came to the area and established trade with the local…
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Eight Resources to Learn about Indigenous Kamloops
Weyt-kp (Hello): Kamloops has a strong Indigenous history. Secwepemc (pronounced Se-KWEP-umk-wh) means “The People”. The word Kamloops comes from the Secwepemc word Tk’emlúps, meaning “where the rivers meet” and refers to the convergence of the North and South Thompson rivers. The Tk‘emlúpsemc, ‘the people of the confluence’, now known as the Tk’emlúps te Secwe̓pemc are…
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Welcome to Kamloops: 9 Tips to Settle Successfully in Kamloops, BC
Please check some of the tips Welcome to Kamloops course participants found useful after taking Welcome to Kamloops annual offering of the course. Tip 1: Acknowledge Traditional Territory: CAUT Guide. One can use the Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) guide that includes recommended territorial acknowledgement for institutions where CAUT members work, organized by province:…
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Social Work Education in Latin America
January 26, 2018 Verifying a continent and locating all Schools of Social Work in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Guyana, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Salvador, Surinam, Nicaragua, and Venezuela is a monumental task for a person who do not speak Spanish and Portuguese and only briefly visited Peru…
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Social Work Education in South Africa
January 13, 2019 South Africa is one of the countries I haven’t visited yet but thanks to support of Ani who mapped most of the Schools of Social Work in South Africa during the International Social Work course at Thompson Rivers University, as well as social work educators: John Marfia from University of Fort Hare…
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Remembrance Day Long Weekend Reflection
11.11 at 11:11 in Canada in six time zones there is a yearly opportunity for everyone to reflect the meaning of Remembrance Day. Every human being on this planet is affected by the war in one way or another. The recognition of sacrifice and acts of courage of those who bring peace to others should…
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Social Work Education in Ukraine
This summer I had a unique opportunity to visit multiple locations in Ukraine and map all the Schools of Social Work in my birth country. I want to thank Yaryna Ivashchyshyn for all her work in putting each Ukrainian Social Work School location on the Google Map: Schools of Social Work Around the World I…
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Social Work Education in New Zealand
New Zealand is one of the countries I haven’t yet visited but thanks to the support of the social work educator from New Zealand, Neil Ballantyne, I was able to verify the list of Schools that are currently offer social work degrees in New Zealand. The list can be found on the Social Worker Registration…
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Language learning as a self-care strategy: Tautogram and Alliteration.
Tautogram and Alliteration Language creation is an interesting process and I use language learning as a way of self-care and relaxation. I have compiled some of the tautograms and alliteration examples from languages I can fluently speak (English and Ukrainian). If you know other examples in Ukrainian and English let me know and I will…
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5th Canadian Birthday Fundraiser and Around the World with the Word GoFundMe Projects.
In summer 2017 I visited School #76 in Lviv and met with my teacher with whom we are connected on Facebook. Natalya Tuldukova was teaching in School #76 for more than 40 years. It was so lovely to re-connect after more than 15 years I graduated from the school and to remember the time when…