Sunrise Credit Union in Brandon is donating $4,000 worth of transit and fair tickets to evacuees from wildfires in northern Manitoba.

“It’s Manitoba, it’s what we do,” said Heather Merckx, the credit union’s marketing manager.

“Everyone comes together when people need help. It just means so much that we’re able to help in a small way.”

Merckx said the credit union is spending half of the donation on 10-use transit tickets, which it gave away to people in need on Monday.

“Just to get out and do something, and not be stuck indoors,” Merckx said.

She said the credit union asked how it could help in a way that was different from clothes and food but was still important.

“The No. 1 thing they said was bus passes,” Merckx said. “A lot of our Manitobans had to leave and have no vehicle or a

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