Montreal

This past November 10th, the Maria Luisa de Moreno International Foundation held an Seniors Entertaining Event for the 2nd year at the Nursing home in Cartierville in Montreal. The Foundation benefited 42 seniors.

The past 21st of July, 2018, the Maria Luisa de Moreno International Foundation visited the Retirement Home in Cartierville in Montreal, where 43 seniors were benefited. They enjoyed a fun filled day where they received teachings in values, on being cordial and respecting others to live together in harmony and love, and that they are valuable beings.

For the 4th consecutive year the Maria Luisa de Moreno International Foundation, with the help of the city of Montreal was able to do a clean-up day in the Ahuntsic park. With the helpof 43 volunteers, a general clean up of the park was done.

On February 24 in the city of Montreal, the Maria Luisa de Moreno International Foundation held a workshop on recycling, where the importance of recycling at home was taught as a daily and rewarding activity that can be done by all members of the family. On the other hand, with this training, we sought to generate environmental awareness and put it into practice on the day of our campaign to clean the Ahuntsic park.

On January 14, 2018 in the city of Montreal, the MLMIF carried out the market delivery activity, in which 84 families were benefited. For the first time it was possible to deliver dairy products, vegetables and fruits thanks to the collaboration of our donors. The Foundation also thanks the volunteers who contributed their time in this event.

The past September 9th, The Maria Luisa de Moreno International Foundation accomplish the event “One day for kids”, took place on community center of Ville Saint-Laurent , 205 children were benefited with school kits.

The children has a big funny day, the thematic of the event was a simulation of a trip, which consisted in a turn of the provinces of Canada, they were accompanied by princess and super heroes, who were guiding in to headquarter for each province.

In the month of April 2017, the Maria Luisa de Moreno International Foundation restarted the French Conversation class for the Intermediate/Advanced level for the Spring Session.

This course is offered to people who wants to improve their pronunciation et the listening of the French language. We have the support of a devoted teacher that makes the class dynamic with day-to-day subjects. Each week, two classes of 50 minutes are given at the offices of the Foundation.

In the month of February the Maria Luisa de Moreno International Foundation provided adult diapers and sanitary pads to people living in the greater Montreal area, who do no have the necessary financial means to buy them and taking into consideration that the cost of diapers and sanitary pads can range from $500 to $700 a month. The drive was done with the help of the MLMIF volunteers, who donated their time, gas, and their desire to help out people in need.

The Maria Luisa de Moreno International Foundation – Canada, is  providing a workshop in legal advice in Montreal where 15 people  have benefited from this help. This workshop has been offered since  August of 2016 with the help of 2 lawyers who have more than 15  years expertise and specialize in immigration.

The Foundation celebrated on the 3rd of December 2016 the International Volunteer’s Day. Present were 61 volunteers who were vital in fulfilling all the different foundation activities with great success for the year 2016.

For the 5th consecutive year, the Maria Luisa de Moreno International Foundation organized One Day For Kids event on Sunday, August 14th, this year in the city of Montreal, Quebec where 110 children have benefited from school kits, prizes, piñatas, gifts and snacks.

It was a day full of fun activities where kids between 0-12 years old participated in nursery rhymes and zumba children; they also enjoyed various musical presentations and the play "No Bullying or School Harassment" in charge of the young volunteers of the Foundation, from whom they learned values such as respect, tolerance and solidarity.

Last Saturday April 30th 2016, a general clean-up of the park Ahuntsic in Montreal was done. The park was divided into 4 parts and each section had 4 coordinators who lead the clean-up task alongside the volunteers. The trash was picked up and separated into recyclables, trash, and leaves and branches. Once all the trash was collected it was then left at a pick up point to be taken by the city. At the same time, an activity was being done with the smaller children, showing them the importance of taking care of the environment, while they played and painted. This activity was overseen by an adult with the help of 4 young adults. In this activity was delivered 57 hotdogs with 57 juices boxes and candy for the children.

It is beautiful to see our clean park thanks to work of the Maria Luisa de Moreno International Foundation!!!

The Maria Luisa de Moreno International Foundation Canada celebrated in the month of November 2015 the Day of the Elder in the Montreal site. In this beautiful journey our beneficiaries received from the Foundation a dinner accompanied with Mariachi, gifts, surprises and they all enjoyed a wonderful afternoon in which they also benefited from manicures and facials just to name a few. The event concluded with a world of smiles from our elderly.