Coats donated to northern First Nation
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Children in Lac Brochet are set to receive a shipment of 72 new winter coats.
“It’s a Christmas surprise,” Simon Denechezhe, chief of Northland Denesuline First Nation, said Tuesday. “Whoever needs a jacket (can get one), and if there’s any leftover, we will donate it again to another First Nation.”
Denechezhe accepted the coats on behalf of his community near Lac Brochet, 1,400 km northwest of Winnipeg.
The community has roughly 1,000 people and is only accessible by air and winter road.
The donation project is as a joint initiative between the Knights of Columbus, Perimeter Aviation, and Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak.
The Knights provided the jackets through its Coats for Kids program and MKO arranged the donation. Perimeter agreed to fly the coats to the community.
“(This collaboration) is certainly an example of what reconciliation can accomplish when people work together…I’m very proud. This is a very important moment for us,” said MKO Grand Chief Garrison Settee.
“Especially during Christmas, there’s a lot of people that require clothing,” Settee said about the north. “The terrain and the climate they live in is very cold compared to the rest of Manitoba.”
Whales Tail Outerwear produced the coats.
It is vital to get them to the communities as soon as possible before the winter weather get colder, said Mike MacDougall, president of the Knights’ Manitoba chapter.
The organization has hundreds more to send to other Manitoba First Nations, if needed, MacDougall said.
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