Sunday 9 June 2013
I just wanted to point you in the direction of three amazing sites!
1) http://www.ykids.blog.com/
Don is a friend whom I met, and now working on a fabulous pilot with along with Janice Ryan on promoting on Activity App aimed for First Nations Youth, (Updates on this later) I wanted to share his blog, because is inspires me every time I read it :) Some days when I think I am too tired to do just about anything, I think of this experience, and How If Don can bike across Canada in 28 days to raise money for youth programming through the YWCA, I can get get the strength to do something productive.
2) http://www.bearclawgallery.com/Paintings.aspx?ArtistID=50
This is the work of Jessica Desmoulin, I have not met her personally, but she designed the screen for the above mentioned Activity App,It is phenominal, let me tell you. and her work is fabulous! I love the turtle art pieces in particular, mostly because I think I was a turtle in my past life. Can't wait to meet this Amazing Artist in person!
Funny Side Note: Am an art admirer, but have a hard time drawing a stick man to save my life.
3) http://www.twowheelview.org/
Two Wheel View: Amazing Amazing Amazing! I think I should really start biking, seeing how The Universe has delivered two biking programs into my life. Always has been on my 'Bucket List' to do an amazing ride through a beautiful country.
Just thought I'd share! It's always amazing to me, how the Universe brings people in to your life, and why you cross paths.
Sunday 2 June 2013
#MMIWG
I've been taking an interest in the Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women's Fight to demand for a National Public Inquiry.
In March I attended the AFN National Forum on this in Edmonton, and I was so impacted by the stories, and the governments blind eye for the victims families.
After the Conference was over, I drove home (about an hour south) and I cried all the way home, It was a heavy cry especially for not personally knowing any victims, and I just prayed for all those families of the missing and murdered 600 women.
It was so hard to listen to sisters, moms, aunties, kokums of the Pickton victims. I just wanted to hug them all. I decided that I would not just sit back, and let this happen to more women and girls. Of those missing & murdered 600 women in Canada. 40 are from my Community. (Stats from the Ermineskin Womens Shelter)
I am a volunteer coach for the Iskwesis Girls Program, and we have 40 girls and are growing every week, and I think of my girls, and how one day, they will be moving away from the Samson Community. I think of how much they mean to me, and how I can provide them with tools & education to keep them safe when that time comes, when they venture into the World.
I have lots of teens who come every week, who help me with the little ones, who set an example for the little ones. I can't tell you how much this girls group has made me want to be a better person for them, to create the hope thats been lost.
Last year, the day before I departed to Africa, I participated the Sisters in Spirit Walk for MMIW in Victoria, and I have chosen to support my Community Womens Shelter on June 26, where men will "walk a mile in her shoes"
Mrs. Susan Aglukark & many other amazing keynotes were in the Samson Community discussing Violence against Women. I am glad these issues are finally being recognized by leadership at all levels. I certainly believe the crisis facing First Nations Women is a National Epidemic.
For all the gatherings, I've been to where we discuss the crisis that face us as First Nations Women, most of the people in the audience have been Women. We need our men and our children to walk with us, on this path to healing, and to move forward, and show our children a life,where gender based violence is obsolete.
In March I attended the AFN National Forum on this in Edmonton, and I was so impacted by the stories, and the governments blind eye for the victims families.
After the Conference was over, I drove home (about an hour south) and I cried all the way home, It was a heavy cry especially for not personally knowing any victims, and I just prayed for all those families of the missing and murdered 600 women.
It was so hard to listen to sisters, moms, aunties, kokums of the Pickton victims. I just wanted to hug them all. I decided that I would not just sit back, and let this happen to more women and girls. Of those missing & murdered 600 women in Canada. 40 are from my Community. (Stats from the Ermineskin Womens Shelter)
I am a volunteer coach for the Iskwesis Girls Program, and we have 40 girls and are growing every week, and I think of my girls, and how one day, they will be moving away from the Samson Community. I think of how much they mean to me, and how I can provide them with tools & education to keep them safe when that time comes, when they venture into the World.
AFN National Chief Shawn Atleo & Reps from Ermineskin Womens Shelter & Samson Cree Nation
I have lots of teens who come every week, who help me with the little ones, who set an example for the little ones. I can't tell you how much this girls group has made me want to be a better person for them, to create the hope thats been lost.
Last year, the day before I departed to Africa, I participated the Sisters in Spirit Walk for MMIW in Victoria, and I have chosen to support my Community Womens Shelter on June 26, where men will "walk a mile in her shoes"
Mrs. Susan Aglukark & many other amazing keynotes were in the Samson Community discussing Violence against Women. I am glad these issues are finally being recognized by leadership at all levels. I certainly believe the crisis facing First Nations Women is a National Epidemic.
Mrs. Aguklark & Myself
For more information on how you can create awareness, please visit the following websites: Please email me more links, if you have some to share as well :)
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