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“We have a group of us volunteers who know a lot of professionals in the community, know a lot of technical people in the community who know where to go to have those conversations,” says Charles Scott, who volunteers with PG4Ukraine. “And we try to make sure we make connections for them and try to help them understand what their options might look like and how to prepare for a job in Canada. In this community.”

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Housing and work have been identified as a couple of big challenges facing those individuals. He says, while PG4Ukraine is not a recruitment tool, it has been used as a job board, so to speak, to connect employers with potential workers. And employers are calling.

“We’ve got employers coming to us from all sectors in our local economy,” says Mynen. “Right off the bat, we targetted associations that speak for a number of these industries.”

But getting professionals from other countries to a place where they can practice their trade in this country is a painfully slow process. The province has opened up post-secondary education at domestic tuition fees. And Charles Scott says as the numbers continue to climb, more efforts may be needed on the professional front.