The multicultural database is an attempt at consolidating general information on multicultural organizations within the lower mainland. If you know of an organization which does not appear within this database please fill out an entry form.

You can view an alphabetical listing of organizations or you can search the database using one of the methods listed below.

General keyword search:

• Use this for finding general information in the multicultural database. Just type in a word to look for and hit the submit button. Check out our search tips page to help improve your searches.

Services Supported:

• Use this for finding an organization that offers a specific service? Choose a service from the list below and click the submit button. This will bring up a list of all organizations that offer that service.
• Abuse Adult Education Advocacy Alcohol and Drug Program Anti-Racism and Human Rights Citizenship Classes Community Development Consulate General Continuing Care Counselling Crisis Services Cross-cultural Education and Awareness Education Employment Programs English Language Classes Family Services Financial Assistance Government Department Health - General Health - Mental Heritage Language Programs Housing Immigrant Settlement and Integration In-home Care Services Information and Referral Legal Services Library or Resource Centre Safety and Personal Security Seniors Wellness Social and Recreational Spiritual Support Groups Translation and Interpretation Transportation Women's Programs

• Use this for finding an organization that supports a specific ethnic or cultrual community? Choose an ethnic/cultural category from the list below and click the submit button. This will bring up a list of all organizations involved with that community.
• Aboriginal/First Afghan African Ahmadiyya Arab Argentinian Armenian Asian Australian Austrian Bangladesh Barbados Belgian Bosnian Brazilian British Celtic Chilean Chinese Croatian Danish Dutch Eastern European Ethiopian European Fijian French German Ghanaian Greek Hindi Hispanic Hungarian Icelandic Indo-Canadian Indonesian Iranian Italian Japanese Jewish Korean Kurdish Latin American Lebanese Malaysian Mauritian Muslim Norwegian Philippine Polish Romanian Russian Scandinavian Scottish Serbian Somali South Asian Southeast Asian Swedish Swiss Taiwanese Thamil Trinidad and Turkish Ugandan Ukrainian Vietnamese Welsh

• Use this for finding an organization that supports a specific language? Choose a language from the list below and click the submit button. This will bring up a list of all organizations that support that language.
• Aboriginal Arabic/Egyptian Armenian Austrian Bengali Bulgarian Burmese Cantonese Cebuano Cree Cutchi Danish Dutch English Farsi Fijian Finnish French Gaelic German Greek Gujarati Guyanese Hebrew Hindi Hungarian Ilocano Italian Japanese Javanese/Bahasa Khmer Korean Kurdi Malay Mandarin Norwegian Ojibwa Oromo Polish Portuguese Punjabi Romanian Russian Spanish Swedish Tagalog Tamil Thai Turkish Ukrainian Urdu Vietnamese Welsh