We are proud to join in the launch of the It Takes a Community campaign!

It Takes a Community is a campaign that aims at celebrating how all people, regardless of where they are born, can contribute to making our communities feel like home. We want to highlight how migrants and their fellow community members are working together to make the places where they live and work more productive, innovative, caring, safe and welcoming. By sharing these genuine and positive stories, we can challenge, negative and false information about migration and build more inclusive communities. 

Help us show how migration enriches communities by sharing stories of your family, friends, neighbours, co-workers and classmates from around the world who are making your community a better place. 

Through this campaign, we have an extraordinary opportunity to build a concrete, global movement that recognizes the positive contributions of migrants and refugees, and helps to foster more welcoming and inclusive communities for all. 

Background

It Takes a Community is a campaign initiated by the GFMD Ad Hoc Working Group on Public Narratives on Migration, which is a multi-stakeholder initiative to promote a balanced and evidence-based public narrative on migration. The working group is co-chaired by the Government of Canada, the Government of Ecuador and the GFMD Mayors Mechanism and brings together national governments, cities, businesses, civil society and international organizations.