Linda Ham (left), Anika Bychok (centre) and Susan Tigullaraq (right) fold clothes and pack them into boxes in Piviniit Thrift Store’s back room on a Wednesday evening. Once full, the boxes will be brought to the RCMP hangar for police to pack them on their jet for delivery to each of Nunavut’s communities. (Photo by David Venn)
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‘I don’t think any of us do it, really, to be thanked,’ says one volunteer. ‘It’s just a nice thing to do.’
Volunteers at the Piviniit Thrift Store Iqaluit have rolled up clothes, packed them into boxes and shipped them across the territory with the help of RCMP officers and Nunavut’s Department of Family Services staff.
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