Rio Tinto is showing support for the sixteen days of activism against gender-based violence campaign.
This morning, the company announced that they have donated a total of $450,000 to seventeen different organizations around Canada.
All seventeen organizations work to provide shelter, education, counselling, and support to help women, children and members of the LGBTQ+ community who are affected by gender-based or domestic violence.
Two of the three provincially based organizations that are receiving funding are located in the northwest, Ksan Society in Terrace and Tamitik Status of Women in Kitimat.
The 16 days of activism against gender-based violence is an annual international campaign that runs from Nov. 25 to Dec. 10 and commemorates the Mirabal sisters who were political activists that were killed in the Dominican Republic in 1960.
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