Who We Are - HT-SACA

Improving quality of life for refugees Through sponsorship and provision of settlement services

Contact us to get help from our dedicated staff and volunteers. We have sponsored and supported hundreds of refugees to settle in Canada!

Our history

Hope for Tomorrow’s Shade Association (HT-SACA) – formerly known as Canadian Hearts Across Borders Association (CHABA) was registered as a none profit organization and charity with CRA in 2003. HT-SACA is a private refugee Sponsorship Agreement Holder (SAH) with Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC).

The organization has been sponsoring refugees and providing settlement and integration services for more than 19 years.

What we stand for

Our mission

Improve quality of life of refugees through refugee sponsorship and provision of settlement and integration programs and services.

Our mandate

To offer refugee sponsorship as a private refugee Sponsorship Agreement Holder (SAH) with Immigration , Refugees and Citizenship Canada and to provide settlement and integration programs and services for refugees in Alberta.

Our core values

Compassion means responding to the suffering of others with love. We demonstrate our compassion by caring for people without judgment and without conditions.

Respect for others is grounded in our belief that all people have human rights and deserve to be treated with care and respect. We demonstrate our respect by being personally present, open and attentive to those we care for and by honoring their needs and aspirations.

Genuine humility comes from acknowledging with gratitude our human abilities and limitations. We demonstrate our humility by doing the best that we can with the resources that we have.

Diversity is achieved through understanding, respect and recognition of individual differences. We embrace diversity by nurturing a safe and culturally sensitive environment that promotes the inclusion of individuals representing more than one national origin, color, religion, socioeconomic stratum, sexual orientation, etc.

Governance

HT-SACA has a board of directors that oversees its operations.

– President
Mr. Yonis Bedri – Vice President
Mr. Mohamed Kasim – Treasurer
Mrs. Kedja Jabir – Secretary
Dr. Mohammed Mokhless Karzoon – Member

A team of distinguished personalities

Over the years of our existence, we’ve been solving thousands of puzzling refugee issues… Still, each time we found a working solution, and not a workaround! This is true when we recall, that over 4,000 people have received our assistance in one way or another since 2003 …

Here's our team

HT-SACA is mainly a volunteer-driven organization with a skeleton staff team. Currently, we have more than 30 volunteers and 10 youth leaders that work in various activities supported by the staff.