About the Wiiche'iwaymagon Alliance

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In 2020 a group of Food Banking Organizations and First Nations Organizations began working together to assist northern and remote communities to respond to the pandemic.  This relationship grew and in 2023 the partners formalized their relationship by signing a Treaty agreeing to work together to end hunger in remote and northern communities.  This is the first Treaty signed between Indigenous cultural groups in Manitoba and Ontario and non-community allies in over 200 years.  It formalizes a way of working together, to meet the common goal of no more hungry babies, no more hungry elders

Wiiche'iwaymagon means "Friends Helping Friends".   First Nation allies Kiikenomaga Kikenjigewen Employment & Training Services (KKETS), Sioux Lookout Area Aboriginal Management Board (SLAAMB), Southeast Resource Development Council (SlERDC), Manitoba Kewatinowi Okimakanak (MKO), Island Lake Tribal Council (ILTC) and Mushkegowuk Tribal Council have agreed to work together in alliance with our friends at Harvest Manitoba, Regional Food Distribution Association, Food Banks Canada, Breakfast Club of Canada, Second  Harvest and Feed Ontario to ensure our babies and elders are fed.

Since the signing of the Treaty, more than a million kilograms of food have been shipped to our communities at no cost.  People who need it are being fed and this will continue to expand.

But not all of us need a handout. So we are continuing to build. The Wiiche'iwaymagon Buying Alliance has been created to deliver a "Hand Up" to our member communities, to bring southern food prices to northern communities.  Our partners will be piloting a low cost food option in February which will expand and the Wiiche'iwaymagon Buying Alliance has entered into negotiations with a one of the largest food  companies in Canada.