Help the Woodland Cultural Society win $20000 for their Save The Evidence Campaign!
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We hope you, your family, and your community are well during these uncertain times.
Now, more than ever, we need you to support the Woodland Cultural Centre's Save the Evidence campaign to complete the Nationally important restoration of the Mohawk Institute Residential School.
We have an unprecedented opportunity to win $20,000 this June and we need your help!
The Great Canadian Giving Challenge is a National public contest open to benefit any participating registered Canadian charity. During the month of June, every $1 donated to a registered charity via canadahelps.org automatically enters the charity to win an additional $20,000 donation. The grand prize draw takes place on July 1st, and one lucky charity will receive this special grand prize of $20,000.
Your contribution would allow us to continue working towards the completion of the Save the Evidence restoration project, as well as continuing our important work with Mohawk Institute Residential School Survivors, ensuring each survivor's history and stories are preserved.
We plan to use the money raised to travel throughout our support communities to collect and record stories of survivors and generational survivors. Protecting oral histories such as these is integral to the Save the Evidence campaign. The children of our future generations will be able to learn from these stories; stories told by our survivors, who as children themselves, survived such terrible and traumatic experiences.
The total budget for the restoration of the Mohawk Institute Residential School Building is $23.5 Million. With your assistance and support we will be able to build upon the success we have achieved in fundraising $12 Million with renovations of Phase One and Two complete. We are currently awaiting response to funding for $11 Million. If this funding is successful, we will need to raise the remaining $500,000.00 to complete the final phase of Save the Evidence.
We're asking donors to support our campaign by donating what they can, so that we can be entered for a chance to win the $20,000 grand prize. All funds raised will help us reach our goal of completing this historic and monumental project to preserve the former Mohawk Institute Indian Residential School as a "site of conscience" for all our future generations.
Now, more than ever, our community needs us. And we need you.