Anonymous donor gives $380000 to remote First Nation for suicide prevention – The Globe and Mail
Jan 25, 2017
A private donor has stepped forward to provide a remote First Nations community in Northern Ontario with money for suicide prevention, money refused by Health Canada seven months before two adolescent girls took their lives, but which federal officials say the government had subsequently decided to pay.
The anonymous benefactor has committed $380,000 to reinstate Wapekeka’s mental-health program for youth, and has already paid an initial instalment of $30,000, said Wapekeka Chief Brennan Sainnawap and Alvin Fiddler, Grand Chief of Nishnawbe Aski Nation, on Wednesday.
Nishnawbe Aski Nation includes Wapekeka, a community of about 500 people located 600 kilometres north of Thunder Bay.
