Donations enable the creation and delivery of programs that are grounded in Indigenous knowledge, values, and traditions (e.g., cultural education, food systems initiatives, and mental health support), ensuring that aid is appropriate and effective.

Empowerment and Fostering Reconciliation:

Focusing on preserving and promoting cultural knowledge, traditions, and artistic practices. This helps combat cultural appropriation and ensures the continuity of vital heritage for future generations.

Breaking the Chains: Empowering women to escape domestic violence through support services:

Providing support services to survivors can not only protect them from further harm, it can provide not just a lifeline, but also encouragement, empowerment, and hope.

While anyone can be a victim of violence, Indigenous women, girls and 2SLGBTQI+ peoples face a greater risk of all forms of gender-based violence (GBV) in Canada.

Indigenous women and girls are not only more likely to be a victim or survivor of crime compared with non-Indigenous women and girls, they are also at much higher risk of experiencing specific acts of violence. These include physical assault, sexual assault, and spousal violence. Higher rates of violent victimization among Indigenous women and girls cannot be fully explained by risk factors usually associated with victimization, such as childhood maltreatment, social disorder in one’s neighbourhood, homelessness, drug use, or poor mental health. Even when controlling for these and other risk factors, it is clear that being Indigenous, in itself, is a risk factor for violent victimization of Indigenous women.