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Outreach Projects are a vital part of the tour, engaging mainstream Canadians in the challenges First Nation communities face. Schools, organizations, and individuals can all join the 3rd World Canada Tourʼs fast-growing movement of Canadians through starting an Outreach Project. Click here to download our Outreach Project Toolkit and start one today!
LAURIER BRANTFORD
After viewing the film 3rd World Canada, Maureene Ninham, a Laurier Brantford student, started an initiative to bring clothes, food, and other necessities to struggling native communities in northern Ontario. She began a program called “Adopt a Box” where boxes were distributed throughout campus to be filled by faculty and students and delivered to the reserve by the OPP.
YORK REGIONAL POLICE
Inspired by the film 3rd World Canada, Constable Natasha Jones, has collected more than 4,500 pounds of food and supplies for shipment to Kitchenuhmaykoosib Inninuwug First Nation this year through Project Dream Catcher. Sponsors & donors included PODS Moving and Storage Company, Easy Pack Corporation, Gemsen, Walmart, City of Vaughan, Manitoulin Transport, and Ontario Regional Police.
OUTREACH PROJECTS
ROTARY CLUB OF TORONTO
As a result of the film, The Rotary Club of Toronto has established an Aboriginal Service Committee and is actively connecting with other Rotary Clubs to have them set up committees and establish outreach committees.
WATERLOO
The Sociology Society at the University of Waterloo will be hosting a viewing of 3rd World Canada to its students on October 25 from 7pm-9pm at PAS 1229. Professor Augie Fleras will be holding an open discussion to students about the film as well as addressing Canada’s social responsibility to help First Nations in Canada.
ROTARACT TORONTO
Rotaract Toronto has offered to take on the First Nations Housing Crisis Exhibit to be displayed at tour stops and later high schools. They will be creating a replica of a typical housing in many First Nation communities to demonstrate how the high cost of living and lack of funding contributes to a wider gap in living conditions and health.
HOUSING EXHIBIT
The First Nations Housing Crisis Exhibit, an idea spurred by 16 year Lakefield College student Graham Andras, will be accompanying the 3rd World Canada Tour and traveling to schools to visually reveal the gap in living conditions in Northern communities. This project is supported by The Rotaract Club of Toronto, Domino Theatre, Algonquin College Museum Studies Program, and James Brown.
