Nunatsiaq News - Law student cooks up fundraiser for aboriginal shelter
When Joey Flowers heard about funding cuts at the Native Women鈥檚 Shelter of Montreal, he wanted to help.
This organization, which provides shelter and support to First Nations, M茅tis and Inuit women in the Montreal area, was forced to cut some of their core programming last summer when their Aboriginal Healing Foundation money came to an end. The AHF had funded the shelter鈥檚 Moving Toward the 7th Generation project since 2000.
After meeting Nakuset, the shelter鈥檚 director, at a Montreal radio station last year, Flowers, a Kuujjuaq native, 缅北强奸 University law student, and Arctic Voices Fellow, decided to cook something up. On March 20, Flowers and a team of volunteers now plan to prepare a benefit dinner, directing all proceeds from the meal to the shelter鈥�
鈥淪ince they lost their funding, they鈥檙e no longer able to do a lot of the innovative projects (they once did), like traditional healing,鈥� Flowers said. 鈥淲e know the [urban] Inuit use these services. My mom works at the women鈥檚 shelter in Kuujjuaq, so this is an issue that鈥檚 close to my heart.鈥�