The Excessive Fee of Canada has introduced a contribution of CAN$101,000 to a few non-governmental organizations in Dominica by the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI).
Following a aggressive proposal course of, Lifeline Ministries Inc., Kibe’Kuati Inc., and the Dominica Olympic Committee had been chosen as a part of 9 CFLI tasks within the Jap Caribbean for 2024-2025.
Over $60,000 to Lineline and Kibe’Kuati
Constructing on final 12 months’s success, Lifeline Ministries Inc. will obtain CAN$30,000 for the second section of its ‘Lifeline Secure Refuge Undertaking,’ which gives protected lodging and help for survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV). This funding can even improve consumption providers for a neighborhood SGBV helpline supported by the Bureau of Gender Affairs and the Maria Holder Memorial Belief.
Kibe’Kuati Inc. will obtain a further CAN$36,000 to increase its training and rehabilitation program for SGBV survivors within the Kalinago Territory. This program consists of educational steering, vocational coaching, childcare help, parenting courses, and SGBV counseling for each survivors and perpetrators, fostering more healthy relationships.
Excessive Commissioner of Canada, H.E. Lilian Chatterjee, praised the continuing partnerships, stating, “We’re happy to proceed our partnerships with Lifeline Ministries Inc. and Kibe’Kuati Inc. whose 2023 tasks exemplified modern and community-based approaches to deal with sexual and gender-based violence. These organizations are offering crucial help to their communities, to Dominica’s social providers sector and to the nation at-large. We applaud their steadfast dedication to finish SGBV and construct a safer Dominica.”
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Dominica Olympic Committee
In a brand new partnership, Canada is offering CAN$35,000 to the Dominica Olympic Committee for the ‘Rising Tides: Important Expertise for Empowering Coastal Communities’ venture. This initiative targets marginalized teams, providing aquatic security coaching and marine training to advertise environmental stewardship and scale back water-related accidents in Soufriere and surrounding areas.
Excessive Commissioner Chatterjee remarked, “That is our first CFLI partnership with the Dominica Olympic Committee. The youth-driven venture advances a number of precedence areas for Canada within the Jap Caribbean, together with advancing the empowerment of ladies and women and prioritizing range and inclusion in taking local weather motion. We eagerly sit up for the constructive impression this venture could have on Dominica’s coastal communities.”
The CFLI helps small-scale, high-impact tasks in growing international locations. This 12 months, the Excessive Fee of Canada distributed CAN$300,000 amongst organizations in Dominica, Grenada, Saint Lucia, and Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, together with the Grenada Neighborhood Growth Company and the Do-Nation Basis Inc. in Saint Lucia, amongst others.
