Our Commitment
We commit our charity to advance reconciliation in Canada. Of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada’s 94 Calls to Action, we’re focused on addressing the health and education legacies that the Truth and Reconciliation Commission laid out. We will dedicate all our efforts to working with communities to provide permanent water and food insecurity solutions. We will provide new homes to live in and repair existing homes to improve the health of all residents. We will teach young Indigenous people how to build, operate, and maintain the water and food system infrastructure and the home building and repair work—giving them jobs for a season and careers for a lifetime. Careers that will enable more communities to become self-sufficient.
CALL TO ACTION-EDUCATION #7: We call upon the federal government to develop with Aboriginal groups a joint strategy to eliminate educational and employment gaps between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians.
- Promise for the North is committed to supporting this Call to Action by providing training, apprenticeships, and jobs that lead to careers in the community for Indigenous people in the Northern Territories.
CALL TO ACTION-HEALTH #21: We call upon the federal government to provide sustainable funding for existing and new Aboriginal healing centres to address the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual harms caused by residential schools, and to ensure that the funding of healing centres in Nunavut and the Northwest Territories is a priority.
- Promise for the North is committed to supporting this Call to Action by helping communities repair existing healing centres and by constructing new ones as desired.