Media Advisory - Funding to Address Gender-Based Violence in the Northwest Territories: M.P. Michael McLoed Announcement Français
YELLOWKNIFE, Feb. 28, 2020 /CNW/ - Survivors of gender-based violence and their families are receiving more support, protections, and a pathway to healing. Michael McLeod, Member of Parliament for Northwest Territories, will announce funding for the YWCA NWT. The funding will enable the YWCA NWT to address service gaps and barriers by testing different ways of providing safe homes in smaller, remote communities that currently do not have a safe space for women to go who are experiencing violence.
Mr. McLeod will make this announcement on behalf of the Honourable Maryam Monsef, Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Rural Economic Development.
The details are as follows :
Date: Friday, February 28, 2020
Time: 4 p.m.
Location:
Greenstone Building
5101 50th Avenue
Yellowknife, NWT
Please note that this advisory is subject to change without notice.
All times are local.
SOURCE Women and Gender Equality Canada
Alex Howell, Director of Communications, Office of the Minister for Women and Gender Equality and Rural Economic Development, 613-862-7245; Media Relations, Women and Gender Equality, [email protected]
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