Future Funding Uncertain For Native Womens Missing Women Project
Federal funding for the Sisters in Spirit initiative of the Native Women's Association of Canada runs out March 31, 2010 and the federal government will not give the group any indication whether it will extend its mandate. Previously approved funding has enabled them to compile a database of more than 520 women who've disappeared or been killed in the last 40 years and develop tool kits to assist police and families of missing women.
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