Vision
Newcomer women flourishing and experiencing belonging through cooking, storytelling, community-building, and entrepreneurship.
Core Values
Hospitality: We welcome people around a table and build cross-cultural connections and friendships through sharing food.
Resilience: We honour women who rise above adversity and trauma with strength, courage, perseverance, and hope.
Equity: We co-create opportunities to grow and lead in collaborative and inclusive ways for social, cultural and economic change.
Diversity: We celebrate diverse cultures and amplify each woman’s unique voice and story.
Mutual Transformation: We believe in nurturing reciprocal relationships by fostering trust and connections over time through giving, receiving, and sharing.
Mission
To facilitate intercultural opportunities and spaces for and with newcomer women to build social connections, create economic empowerment, and lead with cultural pride in the community.
Charter
We created a Charter to guide our actions and align our work as we develop partnerships, make decisions, and build a vibrant community and thriving organizational health based on our vision, values, and mission.
Commitments to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Justice
Flavours of Hope acknowledges that we operate on the traditional, ancestral, unceded, and occupied territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Through our Commitment Statements, we work in solidarity toward decolonization and anti-racism. We are committed to pursuing gender justice and creating safe and inclusive spaces for newcomers who self identify as women, trans, non-binary, and 2SLGBTQI+. As an equity seeking organization, we are deeply committed to pursuing diversity, equity, inclusion, and justice in our leadership and work.
