Inuvik's Children First Centre - Community Infrastructure Improvement Fund (CIIF)

Photo - In this model of Inuvik’s Children First Centre, children are shown playing hockey near an outside play structure, in winter.

Inuvik’s Children First Centre project is partially funded by the CIIF under Canada’s Economic Action Plan, improving community infrastructure in the North and across Canada.

Photo - The outside deck of Inuvik’s Children First Centre building takes shape during construction in winter.

Under Canada’s Economic Action Plan, the CIIF creates both long-and short-term jobs while building safer and more prosperous communities in the North. Inuvik’s new Children First Centre will help strengthen and enrich the lives of children and families in the community for generations to come thanks in part to CIIF funding.

Photo - Two workers, one in foreground and one in background, work on interior trusses of Inuvik’s Children First Centre as construction progresses.

By rehabilitating and improving community infrastructure, the CIIF helps to strengthen and enrich the lives of children and families in Northern communities and in communities across Canada.

Photo - A worker prepares duct work inside Inuvik’s Children First Centre during its construction.

The CIIF is helping communities across the North. It has helped build Inuvik’s early childhood care centre that will: increase capacity for, facilitate access to, and integrate existing program delivery of early child education and care that meets the needs of Inuvik.

Photo - A worker nails the base for the deck of Inuvik’s Children First Centre during the early stages of construction.

The CIIF promotes the social and economic development of communities. Not only does it fund projects that create both short-term and long-term jobs, but it also supports community infrastructure, such as Inuvik’s Children First Centre.

Photo - A worker uses electric equipment to attach roof sheathing during construction of Inuvik’s Children First Centre.

The CIIF helps to fund projects such as Inuvik’s Children First Centre. Projects like this create jobs, improve community infrastructure and help ensure prosperity for Canadian families and communities.

Photo - Welders work on pipe outside as Inuvik’s new Children First Centre is being constructed.

The CIIF is helping to modernize community infrastructure and provide economic benefits across the North. Inuvik’s Children First Centre project is an example of how this funding helps create employment for those in the skilled trades; it also ensures long-term job creation.

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