Yellowknife on-the-land wellness camp celebrates one year anniversary – CBC

Over 2,000 people have visited the camp since it opened April 2018

May 21, 2019

Over 2,000 people have accessed an on-the-land Indigenous healing camp opened in Yellowknife through funding from the Arctic Inspiration Prize, the Arctic Indigenous Wellness Foundation announced shortly after the camp’s one-year anniversary.

In their annual report, released just weeks after the camp’s one-year anniversary, the foundation reported that staff had engaged with over 1,700 people as of the end of February 2019.

In a Facebook post commemorating its anniversary, that number was updated to over 2,000. The camp opened in May 2018.

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