The Prince Albert YWCA is among two local organizations to receive federal government funding to promote women's and gender equality. (file photo/paNOW Staff)

By Charlene Tebbutt

women's and gender equality

P.A. organizations get federal funding for women’s and gender equality programming

Apr 26, 2019 | 4:18 PM

Two local organizations are getting federal funding to promote women’s and gender equality in Prince Albert.

The Prince Albert YWCA and the local Métis Women’s Association are among several groups across the province to receive the funding. The federal government is putting more than $3.7 million into programs across the province to address barriers to women’s equality, such as violence against women and girls and economic insecurity, and encourage more women and girls to take on leadership roles.

The Prince Albert YWCA has been approved for $243,978 to hire a communications and marketing coordinator to help advocate and promote the organization’s various programs and services for women, youth and newcomers to the city, and promote ways people can get involved in supporting the organization.

Donna Brooks with the YWCA said the funding will be spread out over the next four years.

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“Although we may think we have achieved equality, we haven’t,” she said. “And although we do a lot of great work at the YWCA, the public and the community know very little of what we do, and that’s because we haven’t been very good at marketing ourselves.”

The Prince Albert Métis Women’s Association will receive $246,900 from the federal government for a program entitled Strengthening our Resolve: A Capacity Building Journey for Prince Albert Métis Women’s Association.

The organization declined to speak about the funding or their plans for it when contacted by paNOW Friday, but a brief description provided in a federal government release said the organization will use the money to improve operations through “a series of planning, training, development, partnership, recruitment, reflection, measurement, advocacy and consultation activities.”

“Improving our capacity to train Métis women and others from our community is necessary for our growth as an organization and for the growth of our remarkable women who are ready to become leaders in our communities,” director Noreen McBride said in the release.

Other organizations approved for funding to advance women’s issues include the Federation of Sovereign Indigenous Nations, the Elizabeth Fry Society of Saskatchewan and Sexual Assault Services of Saskatchewan.

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Charlene.tebbutt@jpbg.ca

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