{"id":3148,"date":"2023-04-17T11:56:49","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T15:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lamaisonnee.org\/a-propos-missions-partenaires\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T09:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T13:59:10","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lamaisonnee.org\/en\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/template-about.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3148","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":{"general_content":"","show_headerab":true,"headerab_anchor":"","headerab_title":"About us","headerab_text":"<p class=\"intro-text\" style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Red Hat Display';\">La Maisonn\u00e9e is a non-profit community organization that offers collectives and individual services in terms of reception and socio-professional integration. It especially support newcomers in all stages of their settlement, as well as in their employment process in Quebec.<\/p>\n<p class=\"intro-text\" style=\"font-size: 20px; font-family: 'Red Hat Display';\"><strong>Each year, La Maisonn\u00e9e welcomes and support approximately 22 000 newcomers, regardless of their status.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>La Maisonn\u00e9e raises awareness for both the host society and immigrants about the principles and benefits of living together and strengthening the social bond. Open since March 1979, La Maisonn\u00e9e has been mobilized from the start to allow integration ant development of immigrants in this territory.<\/p>\n","headerab_images":[{"img":"https:\/\/lamaisonnee.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20250613_134532-scaled.jpg"},{"img":"https:\/\/lamaisonnee.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/photo-MBAM2025-1-scaled.jpg"}],"show_titleab":true,"titleab_anchor":"","titleab_title":"These are all stories of encounters with Quebec that are written every day.","show_missionab":true,"missionab_anchor":"missions","missionab_title":"Our <b>missions<\/b>","missionab_subtitle":"Make all resident \u2013 old, new and by birth \u2013 <b>a full citizen<\/b>.","missionab_list":[{"item":"Welcome"},{"item":"Support"},{"item":"Inform"},{"item":"Share"}],"show_partnersab":true,"partnersab_anchor":"partners","partnersab_title":"Thanks to all <b>our funders 2022-2023<\/b><br> for their renewed trust","show_wordsab":true,"wordsab_anchor":"leaders-words","wordsab_title":"Leader's words","wordsab_author":"Guy Drudi and Wadih Karam","wordsab_position":"Founder and Chairman of the Board of Directors.","wordsab_list":[{"title":"La Maisonn\u00e9e's vision","text":"La Maisonn\u00e9e was created in 1979 in order to help newcomers and their families to settle, adapt and integrate into Quebec. La Maisonn\u00e9e is a meeting and solidarity place that reaches more than 20\u00a0000 immigrants annually. Many of these people have testified throughout these years that it is within La Maisonn\u00e9e that they acquired skills that enabled them to develop and participate fully in Quebec society while rooting the future of their children."},{"title":"Commitment","text":"Our commitment is to build together an intercultural, francophone, confident and welcoming Quebec."},{"title":"Thanks","text":"We would like to thank and congratulate the entire La Maisonn\u00e9e\u2019s team for the quality of their work. Our thanks also go to the members of our board of directors and the 60 volunteers who accompany us every year at La Maisonn\u00e9e, who do a remarkable and selfless job. 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