Making a Difference

Our teams gathered to celebrate the construction of our latest project in Courtenay, BC on May 18 with BC Housing and all of our project partners. The 810 Braidwood Project is bringing  35 new [...]

M’akola CEO, Kevin Albers was awarded a BC Community Achievement Award on April 25 at Government House in Victoria BC. Albers was recognized for his remarkable contributions towards affordable [...]

Hundreds of people gathered at the Songhees Wellness Centre, Jan. 31, 2018, to celebrate health and wellness in our fourth annual Winter Wellness Event. Throughout the evening participants were [...]

This year, thanks to the generous support of our suppliers and vendors we have been able to raise nearly $18,000 for the family members we serve across BC through the M’akola Holiday Gift Fund, [...]

Aboriginal Day on the West Shore has morphed into a landmark event for West Shore residents and neighbouring communities. The first festival drew in about 100 participants, last year there were [...]

When Jayke James Percival, 10, sat down to design a logo for the West Shore Aboriginal Day Festival, he said he wanted to make sure it was original and didn’t want his design to look like [...]

Here at M’akola our tenants are our No. 1 priority and we recognize all of the family members we serve are the vital to the success of M’akola Housing Society. This spring and summer we have [...]

Speaking from the heart is what Christine Aday was taught to do by her Elders. On June 21 she addressed a crowd of First Nations dignitaries, politicians, affordable housing executives and [...]

More than 1,500 attended our summer Tenant Events M’akola tenants flocked to our tenant events with more than 1,500 M’akola family members attending our community-building events. “These events [...]

More than 1,100 students celebrated the soon-to-start school year with the annual Aboriginal Back to School Picnic on the lawn of Government House in Victoria, August. 13   Aboriginal [...]