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FentaNIL Project

Funded 2021-2022 The FentaNIL Project aims to ameliorate the detrimental effects of the overdose crisis in Edmonton and the greater Alberta, including rural communities, by facilitating free naloxone training, distributing take-home naloxone kits, and educating community members on overdose prevention strategies and synthetic opioids.

RootUp

Funded 2021-2022 RootUp is a group of students in Edmonton committed to bringing cultures together and creating a community that helps newcomers, such as immigrants and refugees, feel at home in a new environment while sharing their unique cultural identities with Edmonton’s mosaic.

YEGTheComeUp (TCU)

Funded 2019-2020 YEGTheComeUp (TCU) is a youth program under the Africa Centre. The collective works towards empowering and sharing various voices and experiences of young peoples of African and Caribbean descent. By coming together to discuss youth-relevant topics through the inclusion of diverse cultures and experiences, YEGTheComeUp provides a means for building and supporting identity, collective and self-awareness and community

South Sudanese Youth of Edmonton (SSYEG)

Funded 2020 The South Sudanese Youth of Edmonton (SSYEG) is a group that is aspiring to connect and empower South Sudanese youth (SSY) across the Edmonton region. By engaging youth in a series of workshops, events and volunteer opportunities. In addition SSYEG focuses on the integration of newcomers into Canadian society and assists in maintaining their unique ethnic heritage and culture. Furthermore, SSYEG strives to connect Edmonton based SSY to other active SSY groups across the country

Sexual Violence Advocacy and Accountability Network (SVAAN)

Funded 2019-2020 The Sexual Violence Advocacy and Accountability Network (SVAAN) commits to ending sexual violence in the hospitality and arts industries and the shared communities of their membership through survivor-centered restorative justice

Future Creators

Funded 2019-2020 Future Creators is a technology mentorship initiative that works with students from grades 7-12 to create their own technology projects with arduinos, 3D printing technologies and coding applications. They consist of undergraduate students from engineering and computer science. They strive to share our technical knowledge and skills to inspire youth in technology and design through mentorship programming. Through their school partnerships, they host free tutorial workshops in schools and find students interested in joining technology mentorship.

Food Not Bombs (FNB)

Funded 2020 FNB is an organisation dedicated to feeding our communities and pushing for a better society where homelessness and poverty are things of the past. They provide hot meals for community members experiencing homelessness and groceries for low-income people as well as participating in the local political sphere.

Changemaker Day

APIRG staff member managing changemaker day community outreach information table

Changemaker Day

APIRG staff member managing changemaker day community outreach information table

Changemaker Day

Video pans from Changemaker day community outreach information table to APIRg staff member at Mother Margaret Mary Catholic high school

Changemaker Day

Changemaker day community outreach information table. Pictured on table, information brochures, APIRG buttons, and business cards.

Changemaker Day

Tiktok video of changemaker day information table at Mother Margaret Mary Catholic high school. Pictured on table, information brochures and booklets, APIRG buttons, and business cards.