THIS IS WHAT WE WANT TO DO

Our mission is to relieve poverty by providing basic amenities, including food, clothing, medical and educational supplies, and housing materials to the needy in remote communities in northern Canada.

While Canadians – a generously-humanitarian lot – rally and send aid to Africa, Haiti and many others around the planet, here at home we all but ignore our own Arctic citizens who barely exist in out-of-sight, out-of-mind remote hamlets. There - in the Land of the Midnight Sun and three months of lethal, winter darkness - Canadians are malnourished, subsist in overcrowded dwellings that would be condemned in southern latitudes, and endure disease rates many times the national average.

It is our belief that, when Canadians become aware of the plight of our northern citizens and are asked to help, private individuals and private industry can and will rally to their aid.

Our initial focus is on hunger. We are also looking at housing, health and education needs.

Initially, we need to raise $200,000 in cash, goods or services to further our operational development while also fuelling immediate aid projects.

What do we need from you right now? For starters:

• Cash donations – every penny really does count.

• Goods & services to support our day-to-day activities and aid projects.

• Sponsors for specific projects and ongoing expenses.

• Volunteers to run fundraising events and help raise public awareness.

Please care enough to be part of the solution and join our Arctic Circle. Every penny and every person brings hope – and there can never be too much of that.

Get involved now!

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If not now - when? If not us - who?

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