Mi'kmaw Native Friendship Centre emergency shelter on North Park Street; from Google Maps
The Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre in Halifax is getting some federal funding for a new facility and programs.
The feds are putting up nearly $5 million in funding for the Centre to design and construct a new space.
Of that money, $4 million of that money will be dispensed from Indigenous services Canada, with the other $910,000 being kicked in from the Atlantic Canada Opportunities Agency’s jobs and growth fund.
Halifax MP Andy Fillmore says the money will support an improved safe and accessible space for the growing urban Indigenous population.
There are over 7000 Indigenous people living in Halifax and that number is steadily growing, Fillmore said at Thursday’s announcement.
