Hey Everyone! The Wapekeka First Nations Band has graciously allocated to our family it's first house - thank you so much, miigwetch!
The problem is... it is only a 1 bedroom unit for our 2 parent, 2 children & 1 co parent household - we are a
blended family! Currently we have been living in one house with 2 grandparents, 1 uncle, 3 nephews, 2 children and 3 parents all consistently live in our household, with more nieces and nephews sometimes coming and going.. with only 1 bathroom, 1 kitchen and not enough bedrooms or space to cope... We are so grateful to the band for this opportunity for our own home for our little family of five.
Our 2 year old son can sleep with us in the bedroom for the time being but our daughter will have to sleep in the livingroom, which means her mother will have nowhere to sleepover as she co-parents with us. We will have no livingroom for family bonding or for our children to have friends sleepover as they grow up. We will have no space to have extended family & friends come to visit or just space to live outside of our own beds.
The solution is to buy the construction supplies needed and pay a crew to build an extension onto the unit. But it is not cheap by any means considering the cost of construction supplies to begin with, shipping them rural/remote Northern Canada, then selling them wholesale, then shipping them to the First Nations reserve you are located in. 'Mistik North Building Supplies & General Store' does a huge service to Canadian First Nations but most families cannot meet the financial demands to cover such construction without help. Customers have to have it flown in by cargo plane or wait until Winter where ice roads can be build and travel to get the supplies themselves.
We have been quoted materials for 2 small bedrooms and a storage porch. Bedrooms so my son and stepdaughter can have their own space to live, learn and grow up.
Mistik North has initially quoted for 28k in materials from their lumberyard to Pickle Lake, ON Canada. To have it shipped the rest of the way to Angling Lake, ON Canada would be almost another 15k. So we created a
GoFundMe to ask for your help to fundraise construction supplies for our first house!
Even if we can fundraised between 15-20k just to buy the materials would be the biggest blessing for our family after so much struggle.
After the
traumatic birth of my son and the stress thereafter our family is in desperate need of a positive fresh start. Three of my spinal disks started to collapse as I was 34 weeks pregnant with out son, we were awaiting news if we would be allocated a house and instead were awaiting an emergency c-section and spinal chord surgery.
Instead we awaited news if I would ever walk again as a first time mother and stepmother. I worried if I would even be able to help my husband move into our first house if or when we got the news...
Thankfully two years later I am walking with my son, I am lifting him in the air as he laughs, I am buying furniture and picking out paint colours with my stepdaughter for our soon-to-be finished house, I am excited for our future with my husband... But no parent can easily admit that their future needs help. With my recovery I could drive with my husband to pick up the materials but
we need your help for the cost. Please go to
https://www.gofundme.com/f/wapekeka-housing-for-the-brown-bear-familyPlease help my children, help our little family, finally have its first own place to physically/mentally feel safe and sound.
Please!
