QIA launches quarterly newsletter

The QIA just launched the spring edition of Tusarassat, its new quarterly newsletter.

The Qikiqtani Inuit Association has revived its newsletter Tusarassat to better highlight the work of the Inuit organization for its beneficiaries.

The QIA just released the spring edition of the quarterly newsletter, paper copies of which are available in public locations across the region as well as on their website, the organization said May 12.

The 10-page colour newsletter welcomes the QIA’s newly-elected president, P.J. Akeeagok, and includes information about services and programs available to Inuit throughout the Baffin region.

“I am hearing consistently from my community visits that QIA needs to do more to communicate its work,” Akeeagok said in a May 12 release.

“I am very excited to launch the newsletter this week in Kimmirut. This is just the beginning of QIA’s efforts to increase its communication with our beneficiaries.”

Akeeagok, elected last December, campaigned on the promise to “reconnect” with beneficiaries and better communicate issues which impact Inuit in the region.

Akeeagok has already made good on one promise — to be more present in the communities by touring the region to host local consultations.

In an online survey QIA conducted in March, the organization gauged interest in launching a newsletter and what information Inuit would like to see.

QIA said it will do a second round of surveys at the end of the fiscal year to re-assess the newsletter’s delivery.