Greenland will send money to Iqaluit fire relief effort

Greenland wants to help its closest neighbours deal with disaster.

To help the victims of the Feb. 26’s disastrous fire in Iqaluit, Greenland’s Red Cross will donate 50,000 Danish kroner, about $9,000, to the Canadian Red Cross.

The donation will be earmarked for those who were left homeless in the fire that destroyed 22 units in Iqaluit’s Creekside Village earlier this week.

The Red Cross chapter in Greenland may also send clothing to Iqaluit on a charter which is scheduled to leave for Iqaluit on March 2, Greenland’s Sermitsiaq newspaper reported Feb. 29.

“When it comes to our near neighbors and kinsmen, and, as more people in Greenland expressed a desire to help rapidly, the Greenlandice Red Cross addressed a direct request to the Canadian parent organization, the Canadian Red Cross, [to help],” said Tove Blidorf, the chairperson of the Greenlandic Red Cross.