Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. And thank you to the Member for coming back to this question.
Mr. Speaker, it certainly has not fallen off the table, and the Department of Education, Culture and Employment does afford some funding for family literacy and then also does afford funding, like, directly to communities, directly to NGOs, and then also enlists the NWT Literacy Council to afford some of that. So in 2024-2025, ECE provided the NWT Literacy Council with $420,000 in funding. And this funding is used to train, mentor, and support community members to design, develop, and deliver community-based family literacy programs. And the importance here is working with -- or NWT literacy works with communities to ensure that that programming is culturally relevant and is available to be used for all official languages in the Northwest Territories.
In addition to that, ECE also delivers the community literacy development fund, and this is financial help for community organizations that want to do local programs to increase literacy skills and also literacy awareness, and so we've got kind of two kind of core main pieces there that still do afford funding to communities for that.