As winter arrives, Thunder Bay's only funded, Indigenous-led street outreach is running out of money - News Summed Up

As winter arrives, Thunder Bay's only funded, Indigenous-led street outreach is running out of money


© Logan Turner/CBC An outreach worker with the Matawa Tribal Council's WiiChiiHehWayWin street outreach program looks out over a street in Thunder Bay, Ont. It's the start of Steven Okeese and Mya Dixon's evening shift with WiiChiiHehWayWin, the street outreach program run by the Matawa Tribal Council. The only funded, Indigenous-led street outreach program in Thunder Bay is about to run out of funding for the second time this year. Street outreach began last winterThe WiiChiiHehWayWin program was born last winter during a series of cascading crises in the northwestern Ontario city. © Logan Turner/CBC Two outreach workers with the WiiChiiHehWayWin street outreach program make a stop in Thunder Bay, Ont., to see if anyone needs anything.


Source: CBC News November 23, 2021 13:07 UTC



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