Nova Scotia long-term care home recruiting refugees in Middle East, Africa to work in facility

The COVID-19 pandemic laid bare the need for increased staffing at long-term care facilities, and one Nova Scotia home has found hope in a place where hope is often in short supply.

Glen Haven Manor in the town of New Glasgow is part of a federal project, working in tandem with the United Nations and several NGOs, to recruit skilled workers from refugee camps in the Middle East and Africa.

Ottawa’s Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot (EMPP) program was launched in 2018 with the goals of easing the skilled labour shortage in Canada while serving a humanitarian purpose.

Glen Haven has hired five people under the federal program. Khodor