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Formation | January 26, 1977 |
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Type | Registered charity |
Purpose | Youth education through residential volunteerism |
Headquarters | 3500 boul. De Maisonneuve Ouest Westmount, Québec, Canada H3Z 3C1 |
Region served | Canada |
Official language | English and French |
CEO | John-Frederick Cameron |
Volunteers | > 36,000 (as of January 2020) |
Website | www |
Formerly called | OPCAN |
Katimavik (Inuktitut: ᑲᑎᒪᕕᒃ "meeting place") is a registered charity that engages Canadian youth through volunteer work. Katimavik provides opportunities for young Canadians to participate in five to six-month periods of community service throughout the country via the National Experience program. It was founded in 1977 by the late Senator Jacques Hébert and the Honourable Barney Danson, a former Minister of National Defence.
Currently, Katimavik is led by John-Frederick Cameron, an experienced executive in the Canadian non-profit sector.[1]