One Pallet, One Community
One Pallet, One Community is a grassroots program initiated by True North Aid that encourages Canadians to meet the specific needs of a remote and northern Indigenous community.
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Reconciliation Walk
Providing an educational experience through a reconciliation walk to remember Canada’s legacy of residential schools and history.
Nunavut Food Security
This project brought much needed food items to Iqaluit in Nunavut.
Building Self-Esteem through Personal Hygiene
This project gives students living in remote Saskatchewan communities access to basic personal hygiene supplies.
Clean Water for Arnaqjuaq Students
True North Aid was able to provide access to clean and better tasting water to the students of Arnaqjuaq high school.
Diabetes Care for KO Chiefs
KO Home and Community Care provide services such as Diabetes foot care clinic in communities and in Thunder Bay.
Kisiliginik Workshops
In 2024, these six-week sealskin cleaning workshops took place in Hopedale, Labrador, bringing together seven participants to learn how to clean sealskins for the first time.
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In 2022, This program ran a six-week reading and physical activity challenge for kids in the community. Activities included community engagement days, literacy nights, community meals, Olympic games, prizes, and a Scholastic Reading Fair.
Northern Reads
We’re proud to promote literacy and provide culturally relevant books to Indigenous communities across Canada through Goodminds and Strong Nations Publishing.
Community Initiatives
The True North Aid Community Initatives Program supports Indigenous-led projects in northern and remote communities in Canada that aim to create positive and impactful community-centred change. As a charity in Canada, we believe that Indigenous self-determination and self-governance are key to addressing inequities and social justice initiatives.
Supplies to Thrive
Through our Supplies to Thrive Program, we cover the cost of shipping quality goods to north and remote communities so that families are not forced to choose between spending their money on groceries marked at high prices and warm boots and clothing for their children.
A Good Night’s Sleep
We are so proud to partner with Silk and Snow to provide boxed mattresses, beds and more in 2021, 2022 and in 2024.
Rollup for the North
In 2023, True North Aid provided over 200 wheelchairs and mobility aids to 14 communities across Canada.
Suwilaawks Experiences
True North Aid supported the Suwilaawks Community School in Terrace, BC to provide experiences for students that will create lifelong memories, build confidence and explore identity through deeply engaging with the land, culture and people.
Misipawistik Doula Program
The Enhancement for Prenatal Doula Program in Misipawistik Cree Nation gives expecting and postpartum mothers the necessary support to thrive within their community.
LEGO Replay
Since 2021, True North Aid has partnered with LEGO Replay, where people pass forward their much-loved LEGO bricks and share the power of play with children in northern communities. True North Aid is one of three charities in Canada who is proud to partner with this program.
Eagle Moon Literacy Olympics
In 2022, This program ran a six-week reading and physical activity challenge for kids in the community. Activities included community engagement days, literacy nights, community meals, Olympic games, prizes, and a Scholastic Reading Fair.
Indigenous Language Conference for Northern Lights School District
On September 14, 2022, Indigenous Language teachers and school administrators travelled to Prince Albert, Saskatchewan, to attend a 3-day Indigenous Language professional development in-service. The participants travelled from across the province’s northern half from most communities with a provincial school.
Back to School
Through the COVID-19 pandemic, True North Aid launched Learning from Home, a program aimed to supply students with the tools to continue learning from home – this program has now become Back-To-School.
Identifying Our Strengths Trip
This trip brought community members and healthcare workers together to learn about each other and learn from one another.
Seeds for Fort Hope
True North Aid was proud to provide Eabametoong First Nation with a pallet and a half of potatoes and other various seeds to plant in the community’s five-acre garden.
Freezers for Aklavik
True North Aid is proud to have provided 30 freezers to families in the community.
From Bag to Bannock
Since the launch of From Bag to Bannock, True North Aid has shipped more than 114,714 lbs of flour to remote communities across the country!
Warm Clothes, Warm Hearts
True North Aid has been providing winter clothes since its inception in 2009 to several communities across the country through its Warm Clothes, Warm Hearts Program.
Hockey Equipment for the North
TIn partnership with Movember, True North Aid is proud to support Work 2 Give, an initiative with Correctional Services Canada. This project recruits Indigenous offenders at Collins Bay, Joyceville, Bath and Beaver Creek Institutions to build structures for remote Indigenous communities.
Work2Give
In partnership with Movember, we support Work 2 Give, an initiative with Correctional Services Canada. which recruits Indigenous offenders to build structures for remote Indigenous communities.
#WeSeeYou Trips
#WeSeeYou Trip is bringing youth from communities across the country to Vancouver, BC, for a 5-7-day educational, cultural and life-changing trip.
Iglulik Wilderness First Aid Course
The 20-hour Wilderness First Aid course prepared 20 high school students in Iglulik, Nunavut with the essential first aid skills for land-based activities and beyond.
Indigenous Youth Opportunities Program
This program supported Indigenous Youth who desire to lead mental health and wellness programs within their community. By providing grants to candidates, True North Aid helped to empower youth to express and articulate their own wellness journeys through interest-based activities.
Growing Roots with Water First
This canoe program, ran in Pelican Narrows SK, integrated traditional, cultural and physical activities and teachings, to enlighten and educate community members.
Boxing and Self-Defence Program
This program supports underprivileged and at-risk youth in the community and teaches them critical skills including how to box.
Awaken the Canoes
True North Aid was proud to partner with All Nations Paddle Up to support their 10-day canoe journey from Shell Beach on Vancouver Isalnd
Buffalo Narrows Fiddle Program
This program provides fiddle lessons to students, an important part of Métis culture and heritage.
Wapaw Canoe Program
This canoe program, ran in Pelican Narrows SK, integrated traditional, cultural and physical activities and teachings, to enlighten and educate community members.
Moon Time Connections
Moon Time Connections is a menstrual equity group under the umbrella of True North Aid.
Hockey Cares
Hockey Cares is a cross-cultural exchange between youth in remote communities in Ontario and Oakville.
Mountain Metis Summer Camps
This camp provided 16 youths with the opportunity to advance their cultural and community well-being while promoting physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health
Traditional Moosehide Tanning
Programs such as this help bring communities together, inspire youth and reclaim traditional knowledge and cultural activities
Hunting Camps in Birch Narrows, SK
“We had our youth out for many hours walking and calling in the moose”
One House, Many Nations Nutana Project
The goal for the True North Aid project was to design and build one house and at the end of the project 2 houses were built!
Culture Exchange Camp
A 5 day Cultural Exchange Camp became a reality this summer for 23 youth from various communities
God’s River Dock Program
True North Aid supported a dock-build for summer fun and activities in God’s River, Manitoba.
Socks for First Nations
In 2018, we provided thousands of socks for communities in Saskatchewan.
Mental Health Workshops Colville Lake
Health For Fort Hope brought volunteers together to help serve the community of Fort Hope with specialist health services, including foot care and orthotics
Orthotics Program
Health For Fort Hope brought volunteers together to help serve the community of Fort Hope with specialist health services, including foot care and orthotics
Turnor Lake/Birch Narrows Community Kitchen
With the support of donors nationwide, True North Aid donated essential items for the Turner Lake/Birch Narrows Community Food Centre.
Fort Hope Photovoice
Photovoice was a week-long youth mentorship that took place in Eabametoong First Nation, Ontario that provided youth with an opportunity to learn the technical skills of camera-use by exploring their community through a new art medium.
Reconciliation Programs
True North Aid believes that there cannot be reconciliation without truth because the very essence of our work, providing practical humanitarian support to northern, remote Indigenous communities across Canada, demands that we collectively ask ourselves, why our organization exists in the first place.
Bedding For the North
True North Aid has been providing bedding to northern communities since 2017 through purchasing and donation drives providing new blankets, sheets, pillows and more.
Dental Cares
In conjunction with our Hockey Cares Project, November 9 – 13, 2017, we have launched a Dental Cares Project to provide dental hygiene supplies and education in Attawapiskat.
Bikes for Kiizhik School
In 2019 and 2021, True North Aid provided 60 bikes for students attending Kiizhik School in Kenora.
Jan’s Bay Summer Fun
This program provided summer supplies to families in Jan’s Bay, Saskatchewan, who otherwise would not be able to afford them.
Niitigaans Chicken Coop Program
True North Aid was proud to sponsor the Backyard Niitawaakiiks Program in Siksika First Nation, Alberta. For several weeks, five families learned about egg management, meat processing, and chicken behaviours, and have built coops to house their chickens.
Playground for Attawapiskat
TIn partnership with Movember, True North Aid is proud to support Work 2 Give, an initiative with Correctional Services Canada. This project recruits Indigenous offenders at Collins Bay, Joyceville, Bath and Beaver Creek Institutions to build structures for remote Indigenous communities.
Lightning Dawn
Lightning Dawn brought together a diverse group of Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth to train and play hockey together, helping to create unity and increase hockey skills.
Water Filtration in Treaty #3
This canoe program, ran in Pelican Narrows SK, integrated traditional, cultural and physical activities and teachings, to enlighten and educate community members.
Makwa Patrol Kenora
This canoe program, ran in Pelican Narrows SK, integrated traditional, cultural and physical activities and teachings, to enlighten and educate community members.
Friends of the North Misiway Shipping Container
With Friends of the North Misiway, True North Aid helped to retrofit a shipping container to become a one-stop shop for clothing and other donations in Moose Factory, Ontario.
Onion Lake Shipping Container
Providing a shipping container filled with supplies for all.
COVID-19 Health Supports
During the COVID-19 Pandemic, True North Aid provided masks, sanitizer, gloves and more to support communities dealing with outbreaks of COVID-19.
Northern Medical Supply Collections
Created in 2017 to provide medical supplies and mobility devices to northern communities in Ontario.
Northern Presents
True North Aid has partnered with schools across the nation to provide packages to youth living in northern and remote communities
Fish for First Nations
In November 2020, freshwater whitefish was delivered to support elders living in Anishnaabeg of Kabapikotawanag Resource Council communities
On the Land Culture Programs
Over the past year, True North Aid has helped fund supplies for the communities of Nisichawayasihk First Nation, Pukatawagan First Nation, and the Métis Community of Buffalo Narrows
Furs for Arviat
Working together with Sarah Martin and her group of wonderful volunteers, Sarah connected with the Inuit community of Arviat, Nunavut to collect of furs to send them.
Sewing and Culture Program
True North Aid was happy to provide Mathias Colomb First Nation (Pukatawagan) in northern Manitoba with craft and art supplies as well as sewing machines to support cultural programming for youth in the community
Food for Lac Brochet
With the support of donors nationwide, True North Aid donated essential items for the Turner Lake/Birch Narrows Community Food Centre.
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