Media Advisory – Thunder Bay Indigenous Friendship Centre, Matawa First Nations and Lakehead Public Schools to Celebrate Completion of Second Tiny Home as Part of KZ Lodge Indigenous Skills Trades Training Program

Press Release

February 15, 2024

Tiny homes built by students being sent to Matawa First Nations communities as part of collaborative effort to foster cultural learning and building lifelong skills while building housing.

WHAT: Tour the second completed tiny home that the students have built as part of KZ Lodge, the Indigenous Skills Trades Training Program at Hammarskjold High School.

The event will celebrate the youth and staff involved as well as the importance of key partnerships that have created a positive force for change in communities across Northwestern Ontario.

WHERE:    Hammarskjold High School, 80 Clarkson Street South, Thunder Bay, ON P7B 4W8

WHEN:     Friday, February 16, 2024, 1:00pm – 2:00pm

*Media are asked to arrive no later than 12:45pm and check in at the main office of Hammarskjold High School where a communications team member from Lakehead Schools will meet you.

NOTES TO THE EDITOR: Interviews will be available with Matawa First Nations CEO David Paul Achneepineskum, students and staff from Hammarskjold High School, representatives from Lakehead District School Board

Media is kindly requested to RSVP to kris@kpwcomms.com no later than 11am on Friday, February 16, 2024.

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Matawa First Nations

Carol Audet

Communications Manager

807.632.9663

caudet@matawa.on.ca

Lakehead Public Schools

Kris Pangilinan

KPW Communications

647.867.3657

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