Katimavik

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Formation	January 26, 1977; 47 years ago (1977-01-26)
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.katimavik.org
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]