Applications are open for the province’s Community Support Fund to help Indigenous women, girls and two spirit-plus people.
Indigenous Relations Minister Rick Wilson says $4 million are available through grants to address and prevent violence through Indigenous-led actions.
“It starts around our missing and murdered indigenous women and girls and our two spirited people and to develop some programs that we can get out to the communities and help in various ways. Lots of groups have stepped up, last year it was over-subscribed and I’m expecting it to be happening in this year. It’s really for those groups to get out there. They haven’t had a lot of financial help in the past so we came up with this as a way to get some help with getting some programs going.”
The Community Support Fund grants started last year and Wilson says they were able support numerous projects in all areas of the province.
“Up in your area, the Kee Tas Kee Now Tribal Council Education Atuhority in Atikameg, they’ve got what they call a physical and virtual storefront for people who can sell items and have what they learned as part of their cultural key chains. It’s just a way to help the communities give them a little extra funding to get some of their programming in place.”
Some of the other recipients from last year included groups in Paddle Prairie, Loon River and Slave Lake.
Applications for the fund started this week.
You can listen to the full interview with the Minister below.
– Kyle Moore, Trending 55 Newsroom
