Nunavut school benefits from WWF-Loblaws grants program

Tusarvik School in Repulse Bay will be receiving money for a traditional foods project. (PHOTO COURTESY OF THE HAMLET OF REPULSE BAY)

Twenty-nine schools across Canada, including one from Nunavut, have received money from the World Wildlife Fund’s Green Community school grants program.

WWF and Loblaw Companies Ltd. distributed $100,000 in grants to elementary and secondary schools across Canada to engage students in environmental projects.

Money that comes from Loblaw’s charge-for-plastic shopping bag program in its stores pays for the school grants.

Loblaw’s bag program has reduced the number of plastic shopping bags from their stores nationally by more than five billion since 2007, a recent news release stated.

The Repulse Bay school project will aim to connect “Inuit students to the land and water by focusing [on] traditional local foods” at Tusarvik School.