ManitobaAn additional $6 million will go to 32 initiatives working to end gender-based violence, on top of existing funding commitments, the province announced Wednesday.More than $6 million going toward 32 initiativesJura McIlraith · CBC News · Posted: Nov 26, 2025 2:31 PM EST | Last Updated: November 26Listen to this articleEstimated 2 minutesThe audio version of this article is generated by text-to-speech, a technology based on artificial intelligence.Nahanni Fontaine, Manitoba minister responsible for women and gender equity, announces more than $6 million for 32 initiatives working to end gender-based violence. (Tyson Koschik/CBC)Additional provincial funding is heading to Manitoba initiatives working to end gender-based violence.Nahanni Fontaine, minister responsible for women and gender equity, said Wednesday Manitoba is putting $6.248 million toward supporting 32 initiatives working to end gender-based violence.The funding is being made through Manitoba’s four-year bilateral agreement under the national action plan to end gender-based violence. The federal government share brings the funding to $12. 5 million.”We know the scourge that male violence plays in our communities, in our families, and in our province and in our country,” Fontaine said Wednesday.”It is incumbent on all of us to take those dedicated steps to end gender-based violence.”Between 2024 and 2025, more than 27,000 Manitobans accessed services funded through the agreement, Fontaine said, and 41 per cent of them were in rural, northern and remote areas.Healthy Muslim Families is one organization supported by the funding.Executive director Humaira Jaleel said they help women through legal consultation, interpretation and culturally grounded counselling.”The women we support often cannot access mainstream services. When a woman is navigating abuse, they’re navigating trauma and navigating resettlement in our province all at once, then she needs more than just a brochure,” Jaleel said.”She needs someone who speaks her language, who understands her faith and the cultural context and can walk with her without judgment and without assumptions.”Western Manitoba Women’s Centre and the Sexual Assault Recovery and Healing program are two of the other organizations benefitting from the funding.The provincial government has already committed to spending $80 million over four years.November is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The announcement came on the second of 16 days of activism against gender-based violence. The annual international campaign aims to call out and speak up against gender-based violence.ABOUT THE AUTHORJura McIlraith is a CBC Manitoba reporter based in Steinbach. She started her journalism career covering stories in the southeast for The Carillon. Since then, she has worked for multiple print publications including the Winnipeg Free Press and in radio for 680 CJOB. You can reach her at jura.mcilraith@cbc.ca.
Manitoba announces more funds for ending gender-based violence
