From your ONRC North of 60 Team
WE ARE BUSIER THAN THE BEES!

Sisters and brothers, North of 60 is a buzz. We have 6 conferences/councils working hard to gather essential food and home items their community is hoping to receive. We are collaborating with parish members, friends and neighbourhood organizations to ensure we have amassed, as much as possible, all the essential items that our Inuit families need to support their families.

Six communities in Nunavut will receive 20-foot sea containers filled with food, household needs, hoodies, and really warm winter clothing including boots.
Each spring, we reach out to our communities to listen and learn how the past winter took hold on the families. Only then we ask if we can help, and then we ask again, how we can help.

We also have 3 communities who will receive food support. These communities are gifted from your generous financial support. It is these funds that allow food to be purchased for our families. We have an established relationship with a warehouse close to the port in Quebec, that has the food, builds the skids and crates, and then moves it to the port fully prepared for shipment to our Nunavut communities. Without your generosity, these families would have no food leaving them desperate to feed their families especially over their harsh winters.

I am asking for your help - PLEASE!

This winter we received ‘news’ from the families in a community called Arvivat. This is a community we helped prior to the pandemic. We stopped our support because the community lost their priest, who is the lifeline to knowing the families and understanding the ongoings in the community. They now have been blessed with a resident priest for over a year. He has asked if we would consider helping the community once more.

Financial support would allow food to be purchased and shipped to Arivat. The utmost help would be the collaboration from conferences and councils to gather food and fill a sea container. I will be beside you all the way to begin either of these processes to support Arivat once again. Please chat with your members to see if there is support you could give.

The North of 60 project can only exist through your funding and our collective hard work.

Allow me to share who & how we support

Whale Cove receives a sea container supported by St Raphael’s Conference.

Rankin Inlet receives crated food supported by Ottawa Central Council.

Chesterfield Inlet receives a container supported by St Catharines Central Council

Baker Lake receives crated food supported by St Mary’s Conference

& St Joseph’s Isolated Conference, Stratford.

Coral Harbou receives a sea container supported by Hamilton -Hamilton-

West Particular Councils.

Naaujaat receives a sea container from Kitchener-Waterloo Particular Council.

Gjoa Haven receives a sea container from Markham and Newmarket

& Elizabeth Seton Conference, Newcastle.

Taloyoak receives a sea container from St Patrick’s Conference, Markham &

Elizabeth Seton Conference, Newcastle.

Kugaaruk receives crated food supported by Peel Particular Council.

A huge Thank You to all of you for your generosity and hard work to support our families in Nunavut.

How You Can Help

Please consider being a member of our North of 60 Team. This is a tremendous project that alleviates the devastation our families in Nunavut face all too often, trying to feed and clothe their families.

Many blessings to all of you,
Pegg Leroux
North of 60 chair

Please support our mission of sharing,
Below is my email address, ONRC’s postal address and a link to the form for pass ups as well as the Canada Helps link for a direct donation.

Pegg Leroux, North of 60 chair north.of.60@ssvp.on.ca
On-line: Click here www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/48540 OR
mail: Society of Saint Vincent de Paul Ontario Regional Council
PO Box 23016 Brantford PO Main, Brantford ON N3T 6K4 including this form to clearly designate the destination of your monies.