Healthy adults may no longer qualify for a donation from Six Nations. The Internal Systems Committee presented changes to the Six Nations Community Donation, Grant and Sponsorship Fund Policy at the Six Nations Elected Council’s (SNEC) General Council meeting on September 10. Those changes included age eligibility, mandatory volunteer hours and expanded the activities that qualify. SNEC did not pass the amended policy, but the change to eligibility age was not challenged. Chair of the committee, Councillor Alaina VanEvery said most changes to the policy were minor. “Some other notable changes, aside from the little house keeping things… focusing this policy now on youth and added vulnerable persons, so anybody that is fitting in that vulnerable person definition whether they are over the age of 19 can still apply,” she

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