Navigating a new country’s financial system is intimidating in the best of times. It is even more daunting when you arrive after being displaced from your homeland due to war or persecution. Vancity’s Resettlement Assistance Program (RAP) is there to take one set of extra worries off newcomers’ plates.
Through the program, Vancity provides first-stop access to financial services, with opening a bank account an essential first step in building credit and safely managing money in a new country. But we also provide proactive advice and help build financial literacy, understanding, and trust in financial services — and in Vancity. And this is expertise we can mobilize at short notice, as we did in 2022 when displaced Ukrainians began arriving in BC.