Services, open to everyone
Businesses and associations the community trusts
Restaurants, hairdressers, tax help, translators and partner associations in Toronto, Mississauga, Brampton, Ottawa and Montreal, recommended by members.
Start your life in Canada with people who've done it before.
MBEYA is a community for African newcomers. Members share rooms to rent, businesses they trust and jobs.
Built around how a move actually goes
Most people arrive needing the same things, in the same order. MBEYA is organised the same way.
SurviveStart here
A room, familiar food and the basics for your first weeks.
Stabilise
Work, services and people you can call.
Flourish
Community groups and leadership. Not open yet.
What you'll find
- Rooms and apartments
- Rooms, shared places and apartments posted by members, with the monthly rent shown upfront.
- Services
- Restaurants and groceries, hairdressers, tailors, tax preparers, translators and partner associations near you. Open to browse, no account needed.
- Jobs
- Full-time, part-time and contract work posted by members and local companies.
Trust starts with people who know you
No documents to upload. On MBEYA, members vouch for the people they know, the way trust already works in our communities.
- 1
You create your account with Google, or with an email and password.
- 2
You fill in your profile: where you are from, where you live now and the languages you speak.
- 3
Two members who know you vouch for you. Vouching opens soon.