Media Release, December 20, 2024
The Mount Allison Faculty Association (MAFA) has announced its 2024 donations to local charities.
“Every year the Mount Allison Faculty Association makes donations to local charities and organizations, as a way of supporting the good work going on in and around Tantramar,” says MAFA President Laurie Ricker.
This holiday season MAFA is donating $7500 to fifteen groups supporting our community. Earlier in the year, MAFA donated $3700 in support of a Mount Allison refugee student through World University Services of Canada.
“Because food insecurity is once again one of our biggest current issues we decided to single this out and make our largest donation, to the Sackville Food Bank,” Ricker said.
The other fourteen organizations receiving support are the Conservation Council of New Brunswick, Cumberland Health Care Foundation, Festival by the Marsh, Marshlight Theatre Company, NB Media Co-op, New Brunswick Coalition for Pay Equity, Sackville Memorial Hospital Foundation, Sackville Music Festival, Sackville Public Library, Sexual Health Center of Cumberland County, South East Adult Education, Tantramar Heritage Trust, Tantramar Seniors’ College, and the 3006 Dieppe Army Cadets.
“As is often the case our members decided to support a mix of organizations that provide help to those in need, as well as educational and cultural initiatives in the local and regional communities,” Ricker says.
MAFA is the bargaining agent for 210 full-time and part-time professors and librarians at Mount Allison University.
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For more information, call Geoff Martin, (506) 364-2289.