BRIDGETOWN, Barbados (June 30, 2023) – The High Commission of Canada is pleased to announce the contribution of CAD95,000 to three non-governmental organizations in the Commonwealth of Dominica through the Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI). Following an open call for proposals, the Canadian High Commission selected Lifeline Ministries Inc., MiRiDom and Kibe’kuati Inc. as three of its eight Eastern Caribbean CFLI projects for 2023-2024.
Through a CAD40,000 CFLI contribution, Lifeline Ministries Inc. will implement a pilot project providing safe accommodation and support services to survivors of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in Dominica. Working in close collaboration with the Bureau of Gender Affairs, the Lifeline Ministries project will train counsellors and hosts and supplement SGBV survivors’ access to safe short-term refuge and services.
Canada is providing CAD15,000 to MiRiDom for the completion of a 2019 CFLI project that was disrupted due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The MiRiDom project will include awareness raising on the importance of protecting and promoting human rights, diversity and inclusion in Dominica.
Canada also awarded CAD40,000 to Kibe’kuati Inc. to implement a rehabilitation and education program for SGBV survivors in the Kalinago Territory. Ten Indigenous women will receive access to academic and childcare support as they complete their secondary education, thereby enhancing their future economic viability and building a network of support.
The Canada Fund for Local Initiatives is a program designed to support small-scale, high-impact projects in developing countries that align with the Government of Canada’s thematic priority areas for engagement. The High Commission of Canada received proposals from civil society organizations across four eligible countries in the Eastern Caribbean, administering CAD300,000 in available funding. Other successful 2023-2024 CFLI project partners include the Grenada Planned Parenthood Association, GrenCHAP Inc., Raise Your Voice Saint Lucia Inc., Girls of a Feather, and
RedRoot SVG Inc.
The 2023 CFLI beneficiaries join the East Dominica Children’s Federation and Equal Rights Access and Opportunities SVG Inc. which conclude their project activities this year. The projects in Dominica advance foreign policy priorities for Canada in the Eastern Caribbean, including promoting gender equality and the empowerment of women and girls, combatting sexual and gender-based violence, and protecting the human rights of all individuals.
High Commissioner of Canada, H.E. Lilian Chatterjee noted, “This year’s CFLI projects help to meet the needs of some of the most vulnerable groups in Dominica — survivors of SGBV, Indigenous women, and members of the LGBTQI+ community. We hope these projects provide additional support to Dominica’s social services sector, and create new economic and social opportunities for marginalized groups.”
Just imagine that the local chapter of the LGBTQ fraternity in Dominica is now an NGO. The glaring deceptiveness contained in the wording-human rights- of the article is deviously strategic. Let’s have no illusions. This is Canada’s calculated and covert complicity, through their diplomatic arm, in advancing the entrenchment and establishment of the LGBTQ diabolical agenda through legitimisation of that body’s ideologies and practices in Dominican society and consequently in the region just as it has been in
Canada. The stage is well set. Keep an eye on that Trojan horse DA peeps!!.
Promoting the gay agenda, that’s what this pittance from Canada is all about. There is now total silence from the churches and the government is not interested in fighting this evil. Many African countries sent America packing when they tried to use threats and withdrawals aid to stop these African countries from implementing antigay laws. I guess in Dominica and the rest of the Caribbean with the help of the courts and spineless governments and churches we are ready to roll over like sheep.
People say, Dominica is a Christian Nation.And you have an organization promoting abomination.I don’t know your belief re the Bible.But I believe the Bible is the final auhority.The court of no appeal. In the book of Leviticus 18:22 the Judge of all the earth said
A man should not have sexual intercouse with an other man and samething goes to the woman, and the verse ended by saying such practice is an ABOMINATION.”
Before anyone say,
“Oh,this is Old Testatament”.
Let us hear from the New.
1 Corinthians 6:9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? do no be deceived neither fornication,nor idolaters,nor adulterers, nor “Homosexuals,nor Sodomites….Will inherit the kingdom of God.”
So those who are practicing and promoting these evils (NiRiDom) If they don’t repent, they will never enjoy God’s heaven,but HELL FIRE.also the Democratic Party in the U.S. that’s also promoting this abomination.
What Human Right? It is said
“Charity begins at home.”
When Canadians took to the streets during the covid saga.The people were fed up with Justin Trudeau dictatorial edicts.So the citizens of Canada and other cooperate citizens gave money via Go Fund Me to the demonstrators. Trudeau Confiscated the monies and closed the accounts.
@J. John, Good Trudeau did that, because you on your Trumpwagon and all you all do is abuse go-fund-me to collect money to defend white supremacy klan trouble makers. How much is the fund by now 1.5 Trillion?
I agree in Canada they treat the Indian people like dirt.They put them on reservation and abandoned them to a life of alcohol,drugs and poverty.In Dominica today, the Kalinago people live in the Kalinago territory.Mr.Gone are,the majority of Dominicans are NOT interested in electoral reform.The constitution section 41 on page 48 gives parliament the authority to make laws for peace and good governance of the PEOPLE.The PEOPLE is the majority.Parliament will introduce electoral modernization for the peace and good governance of all the Dominican PEOPLE.
Don’t play with us!. Advanced human rights in Canada, not Dominica for $95 k. That smells of pressure to legalize gay lgbtqx. We may need $help for electoral reform but Canada is the one that needs help with their treatment of the Indian population whose land they have taken by force and still discriminate against them to this day, while we treat OUR Kalinago People with utmost respect and decency.