The CFUW-Ottawa Savanna Pikuyak Memorial Bursary

The CFUW-Ottawa Savanna Pikuyak Memorial Bursary was established in memory of Savanna Pikuyak, a first year Algonquin College student from Nunavut who was killed by her landlord a few days after moving to Ottawa to pursue studies in nursing. Savanna was a bright, promising young woman whose murder deprived her community of a future Inuk leader.

The CFUW-Ottawa Chapter established the annual $5,000 bursary to support Indigenous women from northern communities who face extra expenses and financial barriers to finding safe housing while attending college in Ottawa.

The CFUW-Ottawa Savanna Pikuyak Memorial Bursary will be awarded on an annual basis to an Inuit female student who enrolls in the practical nursing program or pre-health sciences program at Algonquin. The annual bursary will be awarded to a student from a northern community in Canada, outside the Ottawa region. If no Inuit women apply for the bursary, it can be given to any Indigenous woman from outside the Ottawa region who is studying in Algonquin’s nursing or pre-health science program.

Your donations to support The CFUW-Ottawa Savanna Pikuyak Memorial Bursary will help ensure the bursary will continue indefinitely.