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Community Investment
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| Charlotte Rich and baby William pose for a picture during their stay at the Labrador Health Centre. |
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Among our community investments for 2003, VBNC contributed $1.2 million to the Innu Healing Foundation’s Building Hope Campaign to help build, equip and endow two community recreational facilities in Sheshatshiu and Natuashish. The centres will be vital community gathering places, providing recreational and other programs for Labrador Innu children and adults and creating a catalyst for inter-community activity.
Also during the year, the fifth and final instalment payment of $3 million was made to the Labrador Health Centre in Happy Valley - Goose Bay. VBNC ‘s total commitment toward the construction of the centre was $15 million. The new 30-bed facility provides 24-hour care in acute, primary and secondary health services.
We also worked on developing scholarship programs for Aboriginal high school students who plan to pursue post-secondary education. Two separate programs were developed; one for Inuit high school students and one for Innu high school students. The scholarship program will be an annual program, beginning in 2004.
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