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.
Pimicikamak Evacuation Support Province: Manitoba Community: Pimicikamak When communities face unexpected challenges, meaningful support begins by listening to the people who know their needs best. Through a generous collaboration with Indigenous Reflections, Ka Ni Kanichihk was able to provide backpacks and essential school supplies to 800 school-aged children from Cross Lake who were displaced due…
Hide Tanning camp Province: Northwest Territories Community: Fort McPherson NT Tuktoyaktuk NT Tsiigehtchic NT The Hide Tanning Camp brought community members together to learn the traditional Indigenous practice of tanning animal hides from start to finish. Guided by experienced instructors and Elders, participants worked through every stage of the process, including fleshing, scraping, stretching, softening,…
Tarek Leahy-Chicot Camp for Youth Province: NWT Community: Kakisa True North Aid is proud to support the Tarek Leahy-Chicot (TLC) Camp in partnership with Northern Youth Leadership. This healing and leadership initiative focused on building cultural connection, community wellness, and Indigenous self-determination. The camp honours the memory of Tarek Leahy-Chicot, a young land-based leader that…
Grade 3 Culture Days Province: QC Community: Kuujjuarapik True North Aid’s Community Initiatives Program funds community-led projects, such as the Grade 3 Culture Days program in Kuujjuarapik. This cultural reclamation program took place over many days, with different skills for the students to learn. A caribou was donated to the school, and students had…
Traditional Skills & Active Living Program Province: NWT Community: Yellowknife True North Aid is proud to support Focus Forward for Indigenous Youth. Their Traditional Skills and Active Living program took place in Yellowknife, and included a week of cultural activities, knowledge-sharing, skill-building and entrepreneurship workshops, and physical movement. Co-developed with the Northwest Territories and Nunavut Council…
Sensory Room Province: Saskatchewan Community: Pinehouse Lake Pinehouse Lake, SK is creating a space where every student can feel supported, safe, and ready to learn. With a growing number of students with complex needs, the elementary school in Pinehouse Lake, SK, is working to fully renovate its Sensory Room, transforming it into a specialized environment…
Warm Winter Gear Province: Manitoba Community: Cormorant Lake More than 100 students at Cormorant Lake School in Treaty Territory 5 were recipients of warm winter gear through the support of community champions and True North Aid’s Community Initiatives Program. Families shared that the rising cost of essentials and limited access to stores makes winter gear…
We’re proud to promote literacy and provide culturally relevant books to Indigenous communities across Canada through Goodminds and Strong Nations Publishing.
We’re proud to promote literacy and provide culturally relevant books to Indigenous communities across Canada through Goodminds and Strong Nations Publishing.
We are so proud to partner with Silk and Snow to provide boxed mattresses, beds and more in 2021, 2022 and in 2024.
Shining A Light on Indigenous Art Province: Saskatchewan Community: Green Lake Students from St. Pascal School in Green Lake participated in “Shining a Light on Indigenous Art,” a three-day educational field trip designed to immerse youth in Indigenous culture through hands-on artistic experiences. The project highlighted diverse forms of Indigenous expression, including visual art, drama,…
This project brought much needed food items to Iqaluit in Nunavut.
This project brought much needed food items to Iqaluit in Nunavut.
This project brought much needed food items to Iqaluit in Nunavut.
As part of their festival, Reconnecting Our Spirit, True North Aid funded two music videos in 2023 and 2024 created by 10 youth living in Wabasca-Desmarais in partnership with N’we Jinan. Throughout their cultural festival, youth learned how to write songs, use recording methods and instruments, and also learned videography. About N’we Jinan: N’we Jinan…
This project brought much needed food items to Iqaluit in Nunavut.
This project gives students living in remote Saskatchewan communities access to basic personal hygiene supplies.
True North Aid was able to provide access to clean and better tasting water to the students of Arnaqjuaq high school.
KO Home and Community Care provide services such as Diabetes foot care clinic in communities and in Thunder Bay.
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.
We’re proud to promote literacy and provide culturally relevant books to Indigenous communities across Canada through Goodminds and Strong Nations Publishing.
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.
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.
We are so proud to partner with Silk and Snow to provide boxed mattresses, beds and more in 2021, 2022 and in 2024.
In 2023, True North Aid provided over 200 wheelchairs and mobility aids to 14 communities across Canada.
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.
The Enhancement for Prenatal Doula Program in Misipawistik Cree Nation gives expecting and postpartum mothers the necessary support to thrive within their community.
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.
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.
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.
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.
This trip brought community members and healthcare workers together to learn about each other and learn from one another.
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.
True North Aid is proud to have provided 30 freezers to families in the community.
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!
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.
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.
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 Trip is bringing youth from communities across the country to Vancouver, BC, for a 5-7-day educational, cultural and life-changing trip.
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.
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.
This canoe program, ran in Pelican Narrows SK, integrated traditional, cultural and physical activities and teachings, to enlighten and educate community members.
This program supports underprivileged and at-risk youth in the community and teaches them critical skills including how to box.
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
This program provides fiddle lessons to students, an important part of Métis culture and heritage.
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 is a menstrual equity group under the umbrella of True North Aid.
Hockey Cares is a cross-cultural exchange between youth in remote communities in Ontario and Oakville.
This camp provided 16 youths with the opportunity to advance their cultural and community well-being while promoting physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual health
Programs such as this help bring communities together, inspire youth and reclaim traditional knowledge and cultural activities
“We had our youth out for many hours walking and calling in the moose”
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!
A 5 day Cultural Exchange Camp became a reality this summer for 23 youth from various communities
True North Aid supported a dock-build for summer fun and activities in God’s River, Manitoba.
In 2018, we provided thousands of socks for communities in Saskatchewan.
Health For Fort Hope brought volunteers together to help serve the community of Fort Hope with specialist health services, including foot care and orthotics
Health For Fort Hope brought volunteers together to help serve the community of Fort Hope with specialist health services, including foot care and orthotics
With the support of donors nationwide, True North Aid donated essential items for the Turner Lake/Birch Narrows Community Food Centre.
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.
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.
True North Aid has been providing bedding to northern communities since 2017 through purchasing and donation drives providing new blankets, sheets, pillows and more.
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.
In 2019 and 2021, True North Aid provided 60 bikes for students attending Kiizhik School in Kenora.
This program provided summer supplies to families in Jan’s Bay, Saskatchewan, who otherwise would not be able to afford them.
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.
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 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.
This canoe program, ran in Pelican Narrows SK, integrated traditional, cultural and physical activities and teachings, to enlighten and educate community members.
This canoe program, ran in Pelican Narrows SK, integrated traditional, cultural and physical activities and teachings, to enlighten and educate community members.
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.
Providing a shipping container filled with supplies for all.
During the COVID-19 Pandemic, True North Aid provided masks, sanitizer, gloves and more to support communities dealing with outbreaks of COVID-19.
Created in 2017 to provide medical supplies and mobility devices to northern communities in Ontario.
True North Aid has partnered with schools across the nation to provide packages to youth living in northern and remote communities
In November 2020, freshwater whitefish was delivered to support elders living in Anishnaabeg of Kabapikotawanag Resource Council communities
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
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.
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
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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