Forestry Training

Recipient: Skin Tyee First Nation
Amount: 15000
Date: 2003-07-24
Areas: Burns Lake and Southside
Sectors: Capacity Building
Strategy: Human Development
Description: After entering into a forestry venture, the Skin Tyee people identified the need for training in chainsaw safety, fire suppression, hazard recognition, and first aid. With NKDF paying for the training (mostly through the College of New Caledonia), ten people, once on social assistance, are now employable.
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The Nechako Kitamaat Development Fund Society came to our aid and assisted us with the cost of installing a fire suppression sprinkler system in one of our seniors’ housing complexes in Burns Lake. The funds...

~Lakes District Senior Citizen Housing Association