Nunavik’s Ungaluk fund hands out $11 million in 2015 – Nunatsiaq News
June 16, 2015
“We want the program to be considered something that can make us healthier”
Nunavik’s Ungaluk crime prevention fund handed out more than $11 million this year to projects across the region.
For 2015, just over 50 successful project applicants received money to pay for everything from healing initiatives to recreational programs to new summer literacy camps.
Ungaluk is the result of a 2006 deal with the Quebec government, which traded the construction of a provincial jail in Nunavik for about $300 million, with Quebec paying Makivik Corp. and the Kativik Regional Government at least $10 million a year until 2030.
“Social problems are big in the communities and we are looking for ways to heal,” Ungaluk coordinator Sarah Airo told KRG meetings in Inukjuak last month.
