Maslow's hierarchy of needs claimed that all people must first have all of our basic needs met, safely and securely, before we can strive to reach our maximum potential. These "basic" needs can be defined as food, clothing, air, water, shelter, employment, and social connections.

We ask each community to consider the following questions:

     Do your residents have reliable access to an abundant supply of clean and affordable water?

     Do your residents have reliable access to an abundant supply of affordable, healthy food choices?

     Do your residents have reliable access to an abundant supply of affordable, quality clothing?

     Do your residents have sufficient quality and quantity of available housing?

If the answer to any of these is "no", we can help. Promise for the North has positioned ourselves to help each community in the territories make security in all of these basic needs a reality. As a charity we can use the concept of "one-thirds" to make all of the needed projects happen. Simply put "one-thirds" means:

• We can reduce the cost of every project by one-third by working with shippers and material suppliers to getting things to you at a charitable rate.
• We can seek donations and federal grants to cover another one-third of the original cost.
• Leaving the community to only pay one-third of their original estimate.

The combined populations of Yukon, NWT, and Nunavut are less than 1% of the total population of Canada. But the funds needed to complete all of the desperately needed projects far exceeds 1% of the federal government's budget. We can help the government stretch their investment three-fold! We can help execute all of the long-overdue projects to enable every community to thrive! What projects can we help with? The simple answer is ANYTHING that improves your access or security of that access to food, water, clothing, and shelter. This can include things such as medical equipment and facilities, school support, etc., as these items play a direct impact in the residents' ability to work and earn money to access the basic needs.

 

With this never before tried concept, we CAN, and WILL, eliminate:

• Poor housing conditions
• Overcrowding
• Lack of reliable access to clean drinking water
• Lack of reliable access to healthy food of all types
• Lack of reliable access to good quality, well-made clothes
• High levels of unemployment due to lack of good jobs and lack of good training opportunities
• Poor health conditions due to lack of medical and dental facilities with well-trained staffs to serve the community.
• The mental, emotional, and physical stress families feel every day as they struggle to thrive.

We will do all of this, and do it all quickly, because it simply must be done.  The burden of the difficult living conditions in the Northern Territories can and must be eased. We promise to work with every single community to raise the bar, one project at a time.