Volunteering & Student Placements

The Mennonite New Life Centre seeks to be a place of welcome, friendship and community, where newcomers and neighbours gather to support each other, learn from each other, and take action together for a more just and compassionate society. We seek to offer meaningful volunteer opportunities and limited student placements.

Volunteer

Volunteers play an important role in building this community of mutual support, reciprocal learning and collective action. They bring compassion and solidarity, knowledge and skills, ideas and enthusiasm to the activities and work of MNLCT.

We seek to provide meaningful volunteer opportunities: opportunities that honour the ideas and skills of the volunteer, while responding to the needs of the community and the mission of the Mennonite New Life Centre. Volunteering with us offers you the opportunity to:

  • meet new people and build community connections
  • improve language and communication skills
  • develop new skills and explore new career paths
  • gain Canadian experience and references

Volunteers work with us in many kinds of roles, from reception and interpretation to community organizing and group facilitation. 

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Student Placements

The Mennonite New Life Centre of Toronto offers limited placement opportunities to college and university students, in settlement, mental health, community work, fundraising & nonprofit management and social work programs. Placements spaces are limited and usually advertised through the relevant school or program.

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"The Mennonite New Life Centre and its BEMC program came in very handy for me at the lowest ebb of my life by providing a lifeline and I am eternally grateful for that,”

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We are sharing an update on the technical issues MNLC is experiencing.

When the issue was first identified, it appeared to be a technical disruption with one of our systems. Through further investigation, we confirmed that the technical issue was the result of a malicious cybersecurity incident.

Since then, we have been working closely with external cybersecurity experts to understand what happened, contain the incident, and secure our systems.

Based on what we know so far, we have not found evidence that clients’ personal information has been accessed. Our investigation is ongoing, and we are continuing to assess the full scope. If we determine that anyone’s personal information has been affected, we will contact those individuals directly.

We know this disruption has made it harder to reach us, and we are sorry for the frustration and concern this may have caused—especially for the newcomers, refugees, and others in our community who rely on our services. We understand that privacy, safety, and access to support are especially important, and we take that responsibility seriously.

Our phone and email systems remain temporarily unavailable as we take the necessary steps to restore them safely. In the meantime, you can continue to reach us at the temporary emails listed below for urgent matters, or visit us in person.

As a precaution, we encourage everyone to be cautious of unexpected emails, phone calls, or messages claiming to be from our organization. We will not ask for sensitive personal information through unofficial channels.

We will continue to share updates as we learn more.

Thank you for your patience and trust. We are actively addressing the incident and strengthening our systems to better protect the people we serve.

Our offices will be closed from Friday, April 3 to Monday, April 6. We will reopen on Tuesday, April 7.
Happy Easter to those who celebrate!

Our Resource Centre at Keele office is open from 9:00 AM to 3:00 PM. Settlement staff are available to answer questions and provide guidance, and LINC in-person classes are running as usual.

The HAP clinic is open on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday at our Finch office, 9:30 AM – 3:30 PM.

For urgent matters regarding other departments, please contact us via our temporary emails: 

We take your privacy seriously and kindly ask that you do not share sensitive personal information via email.

We will notify you as soon as we are back.