A very small part of the overall multi-part shipment to Fort Good Hope.
The Rotary Club of Yellowknife ended up shipping $7,548 worth of much needed supplies to the people of Fort Good Hope. The original budget of $4,500 was exceeded largely due to the final cost of shipping the heavier bulk food items to the Sahtu community.
The community of 500 was in dire straits under a public health containment order in August, after it unknowingly became the site of a COVID-19 super-spreader event.
The first boxes of what was a multiple-stage shipment contained cleaning supplies, surgical masks for COVID-19 protection and other dry goods. Later shipments contained cold-storage foods and even some specific items as communicated to the Club.
“We were very gratefully thanked on the local radio station for what the Rotary Cub had done,” said International Projects chair Jan Larsson, reporting back recently to the executive.
“We were over-budget … due to the shipping and and it mainly came down to we were shipping heavy, heavy materials like milk and fruit. And in some cases, sugar. Because sugar was needed for the ongoing harvesting of the (high-bush) cranberries for for the winter.”