The work that came before the practice
Rotary, seniors groups, school breakfast programmes and a residents' campaign against Metrolinx. Thirty years, mostly within a few streets of where his clients live.
Rotary Club of Mississauga-Airport
Multi-term president, 12+ years of programmes
The club he has served longest, and where the advocacy work below started.
Heartland Creditview Community & Health Services
Former Executive Director
A community health and social services organisation in Mississauga. Running one is a different job from volunteering at one.
KINGSBRIDGEMATTERS
Executive Director
A residents' advocacy group. The Metrolinx work below was run through it and through the Rotary club.
Senior Tamils Society of Peel
Programme organiser, Since 2016
One of the seniors groups he has kept running, and one reason so much of the practice is estate work for older families.
Where the time actually went
- School breakfast clubsEleven Peel schools, for two decades, run through the Rotary club and the schools themselves.
- Seniors groupsThe Senior Tamils Society of Peel among them, kept running since 2016.
- Rotary programmesTwelve years of them, under a multi-term presidency.
- Community grantsFunding placed with the local programmes that asked for it.
“Ehsan Khandaker of the Mississauga-Malton Rotary Club has been a driving force behind attempts to persuade Metrolinx to move the Eglinton LRT stop farther south.”
Mike Smee, CBC News
The Eglinton Crosstown West extension through Mississauga-Malton, and a residents' campaign to move a stop to where the people who would use it actually live.
In his own words, and his own footage
- YouTubeCommunity events, talks and campaign footage, filmed over the last decade.
- FacebookThe day to day of the clubs and the programmes, posted as it happens.
- InstagramPhotographs from events across Peel and York.
The same job as the community work: making sure nobody is left to sort it out alone.