This holiday season, Youth4Youth Canada was honoured to take part in the December 2025 NAC Adàwàning: Indigenous Women’s Art Market. This market brought together artists, families, and community members to celebrate creativity, culture, and connection. It was a wonderful opportunity to fundraise for our Kisac Cultural workshops for Indigenous youth <25 years old in the Ottawa area. Our 2026 workshops will continue to focus on youth leadership, wellness, skills building and peer support.
We are extremely grateful to the number of unexpected visitors who stopped by to purchase our handmade Indigenous chocolates as gifts for loved ones, as stocking stuffers, and for their office holiday parties. Every purchase helped to move our work forward!
What made this fundraiser especially meaningful was a donation that allowed our chocolates to be sent to remote Indigenous communities in Manitoba who could benefit from a little Christmas cheer. Between the generosity of a local benefactor and an Elder from our home community inhabiting the role of "Santa", we are hoping to remind our people in the north that they matter.
Youth4Youth Canada embraces opportunities to collaborate with people who believe in community care, who practice kindness, who show compassion, and who are looking to further acts of shared responsibility as it has been our experience that youth learn best when they are surrounded by care, culture, and community.
As we look ahead to 2026, we are reminded that when community comes together, even small actions can make a real difference!
