Join us at our warehouse to help out with one or more of the many day-to-day activities that happen at Welcome Collective! These include:

• Helping our team sort and organise the donations we receive and prepare kits and packages for newly arrived families.

• Accompanying and guiding clients while they select their furniture

• Assisting clients in trying and selecting winter coats and boots

• Helping update inventory of our more numerous items

• Participating in the many other tasks and projects that come up from time to time!

Requirements: Volunteering takes place Monday to Friday, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. Regular or occasional volunteering is possible.

Join our movers on our truck to help pick up donations and deliver furniture and household items to newly arrived refugee claimants. These volunteers must be able to lift heavy items like furniture.

Requirements: Minimum of 4 hours of availability. Weekly, bi-weekly, or occasional volunteering is possible. Volunteering takes place Monday to Friday, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m.

If you have a car and some free time, we need you! You can help newcomers by making small pick-ups and deliveries of smaller items across the Island of Montreal. These could include baby clothing, car seats, pots and pans, and more. You will be picking these items up from donors or delivering them to a newly arrived family.

How it works:

• We will provide you with an itinerary of pick-ups or drop-offs that fits with your availability

• You drive to donor homes and collect donations, and then deliver them to our warehouse where we will help you unload! You could also be delivering small essential items to newcomer families.

• You need your own car - but we will pay for gas!

Requirements: The hours for small item pick-ups and deliveries are generally flexible, depending on your availability.

Are you a whiz with website coding? Can you repair furniture in your sleep? Are you a polyglot who can translate to Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic, Punjabi, or another language?

If so, we need you! Please be in touch with us if you have a special skill that you think could be of use to us, such as translation, skilled labour, programming, data analysis, photography, and much more. Even if we can’t use your expertise right now, we will gladly keep your information on file for when we are in need of your skills later on.

Winter Ambassadors are volunteers who collect winter outerwear from their networks for several weeks. At the end of their ambassadorship, Welcome Collective picks up the donations from the ambassador’s home, business, or school. Welcome Collective also provides ongoing support and check-ins to make your ambassadorship a success!

Learn more about the Winter Ambassador Program

A child's first day in a new school is stressful enough. Add in a new language, culture, and country, and it's a lot to handle! We can help children feel ready for this challenge - most likely, one of many they have faced in their young lives - by making sure they have the supplies they need to learn and thrive.

Learn more about School Supply Collections

Because we prioritize families with young children and pregnancies for our services, we ALWAYS need baby items! We welcome initiatives to collect items for babies and young children year-round.

Collections can be organized by a daycare, preschool, parent group, or individual! To organize a collection, please email us directly at benevoles@welcomecollective.org

Sharing one’s story when applying for asylum is a crucial step, but it is often intimidating and difficult to navigate alone. We can help asylum seekers overcome this hurdle by providing them with thorough and compassionate support as they draft their stories, thereby enabling them to make their voices heard.

Read more and apply