CANADA
CBC News
A Yellowknife healing program created to help deal with the legacy of residential schools is closing its doors this week, possibly for the last time.
A program called Embracing Our Humanness has been running out of the Healing Drum in Yellowknife for a while now, courtesy of some federal government funding.
But on Friday, the four-week program will come to an end because Ottawa announced the Aboriginal Healing Foundation funding that was bankrolling the program would not be renewed.
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“It makes me sad,” says Dawn Mangelana, who’s been using the service.”There’s a huge waiting list here at the Healing Drum society. Those people who are reaching out for help will not be fortunate enough to receive what I have through this program.”
More than 200 people are waiting to get into the program. It’s scheduled to run for two more cycles, but only for inmates in Yellowknife and Hay River jails.
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