Slideshow to present to St Thomas Anglican Church Vestry on Thursday Sept 11, 2014 at 7:00PM

1. The Halton Hills Anglican Cluster
Inuit Outreach Project
St. Stephen’s, Hornby St. Paul’s, Norval
St. John’s, Stewarttown
Caring and Sharing as One

3. Mission
To enable the Inuit to live with purpose through:
• Outreach: provide immediate essential items for
survival and dignity of life: clothes, food and
other essential items;
• Justice: support national education and
employment opportunities.
Fast Fact: The median income for Inuit adults is much lower than
that for all Canadians: $13,699 compared to $22,120.
Considering the much higher cost of living in the north, these
lower incomes have to go a long way.

4. 2010 TD Bank Inuit Clothing Drive
• Through TD Bank’s Susanna Hunter, Dagny Langer’s
story was repeated about the appalling Inuit situation.
• Dagny an Inuit foster parent, in particular, the sick
children transported from Inukjuak to Montreal said:
“The little ones, new born to 12 years are in desperate need
of clothes ages newborn to 12 years. Things like onesies,
sleepers, blankets, under garments, long johns, socks,
boots/shoes, mittens, and hats. They also need other
essential items like baby formula, teething biscuits, baby
diapers, baby wipes, baby powder, and soap.”
• TD Canada Trust HR led the first Inuit Clothing Drive

5. First Contact: Siasi Smiler Irqumia
Siasi Smiler Irqumia was
born and lives in Inukjuak.
She was greatly influenced
by her parents who taught
her the traditional way of
living. She is a printmaker
who uses wood and lino to
produce limited edition
prints. She also does
paintings and drawings
portraying images of
women at work.
Footnote: Aqiattusuk was Isa Smiler's Inuktitut name. Born in Inukjuak in 1921, both of his parents died from an illness when he
was only nine-years-old. He worked as an assistant to a succession of Anglican missionaries, which involved giving Inuktitut
lessons and acting as a translator. Encouraged by James Houston, he began carving in 1948. In 2004, he was named one of the
four best carvers by his colleague Johnny Inukpuk. At Waddington's November 2008 Inuit Art auction, Mother and Child sold for
$48,000. Talking about a chess set he made in the 1960s, his daughter, Siasi Smiler Irqumia, said, "It was one of the best carvings
I have seen - little animals carved out of soapstone. ... That chess set reminds me of peaceful times, growing up watching my
father make art" (Interview with Inuit Art Foundation staff in Inukjuak in 2009).

6. TD Gallery of Inuit Art
Isa Smiler Carving

7. Who is Your Neighbour?
A Growing Army of Volunteers
• Partnerships with Bethel Christian Reform Church, and Chance to Play,
supported by St. Alban’s Glen Williams, Norval United and Presbyterian
Churches, St. Thomas, St. Catherine’s, Baby City discounted diapers
• 1,000’s of volunteer hours ; knitters, quilt makers, receiving blankets made
Since 2010 over $100,000 “in kind” gifts
• Storage – $50,000 Gift
• Air Freight – $42,000 (6 metric tons) Gift
• Truck, Gas and Drivers – $11,000 (9 shipments) Gift
HHAC Gifting increasing year over year
– 2011 $200
– 2012 $1450
– 2013 $1154
– 2014 $2374 (Benefit Concert $1,519.40; Garage Sale $740) plus WOW Grant $3475

8. Inuit Outreach Committee
• Connie Karlsson, St. Paul’s Co-ordinator
• Barb Mansfield, St. John’s Co-ordinator
• Deborah Keefe, St. Stephen’s Co-ordinator
• Alice Rice, Community Leader
• Ann Vanderlaan Adema, Bethel, Christian Church
• Bailey Davis-Carter, Community Leader
• Barbara Shein, St Stephen’s
• Mike Mansfield, St. John’s and Treasurer
• Emma Keefe, Youth Leader
• Selena Karlsson, Youth Leader

9. Inuit Partners
• Air Inuit, First Air
• Lucy Jayne Inukpuk, Makivik, Montreal
• Siasi Irqmia, Mayor Inukjuak
• Sarah Idlout, Kativik School Board Education
Committee President, Inukjuak
• Annie and Elijah Kavik, Elders
• Lisi Kavik, Principal Nuiyak School, Sanikiluaq
• Johnny Langer and Louisa Kritik, Tasiujaq

10. Transform and Impact Lives
Since 2010 we have reached out to four communities:
– Inukjuak and Tasiuaq, Nunavik
– Iqaluit, and Sanikiluaq, Nunavut

11. Outreach - Six tons (813 boxes) since 2010
November
2010
• 208kg donated, sorted, packed and driven
• 40 boxes via Inuit Air
December
2011
• Over 1 ton donated, sorted, packed and driven
• 169 boxes via Inuit Air & First Air
December
2012
• Over 1 ton donated, sorted, packed and driven
• 178 boxes via Inuit Air
December
2013
• Over 3.5 tons donated, sorted, packed and driven
• 3 Shipments, 426 boxes via Inuit Air

12. Donations Sorted and Boxed

13. Volunteer Shippers, Drivers and
Donated Transport Truck

14. Free Freight through Air Inuit

15. Getting the Message Out
April 14, 2013
• Inukjuak Ministry Presentation
May 28, 2013
• Mission Beginning Presentation
June 8, 2013
• Urban Aboriginal Policy Summit
June 23, 2013
• Aboriginal Month Presentation
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16. Getting the Message Out
Summer 2013
•Niagara Anglican Online Newsletter
Winter 2013
•Outreach, FB Anglican Church of Canada
January 28, 2014
•Celebration and Kickoff Meeting
March 31, 2014
•Carolyn Bennett, Liberal MP Aboriginal Affairs
Meeting
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17. Getting the Message Out
https://www.facebook.com/InuitOutreachProject
http://www.caringandservingasone.com/ 17

18. Walking on Water (WOW) Grant
• The Halton Hills Anglican Cluster received a
$3475 a WOW Grant from the Anglican
Diocese of Niagara to travel to Inukjuak
• On May 10th our vision and mission goals were
presented to a panel of eight and was
awarded the grant that very day!
• The WOW Grant is supporting Dagny travel

20. The Spirit Working Through Us
Halton Hills Anglican Cluster Inuit Outreach IS
transformational, and furthering God’s mission:
– Truth and Reconciliation Goals: Anglicans are invited to
join their Church and society in moving towards right
relations; priorities: education and justice, adequate
housing, health / mental-health care, and making progress
against missing and murdered Indigenous women (March 27-30)
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21. Northward Bound…Intended
Outcomes
• Create a working partnership with The Diocese of the Arctic
beginning with St. Thomas, Inukjuak identifying the most
effective ways of meeting social needs.
• Become better educated in the South to the abject poverty.
• Become more effective, usable and accessible to the Inuit in
the communities.
• Improve our logistics chain and create a sustainable model for
further outreach to all Inuit communities.
Donations
Truck
Shipment
Air Inuit &
First Air
Need Distribute
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22. Measuring
Impact
• Meet with the Church and
Municipal delegates and
elders.
• Attend community events:
Church and other Church
related gatherings, sewing
circles, soup kitchens etc.
• Identify most urgent needs
– ministerial, educational,
social, health, housing.
• Contacts identified for
receipt of, pick up, store and
distribute donations; issues
identification.
• Communicate the need and
outcomes with sensitivity
through video-graphy and
story-telling; educate as to
the need. Consistent
feedback will grow our
mission and our
commitment.
• Continued growth within
and beyond our Church
answering God’s call to
serve.
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23. Questions?
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