Reconciliation

In light of Orange Shirt Day Saturday Sept. 30th we read and spoke a lot this week about what Reconciliation means and how we can begin to understand our sad and difficult history as it pertains to our First Nations people. 

As we continue to dive into our Homelessness and Poverty work we took a look at some data collected in 2011 reflecting the number of Indigenous and Non-Indigenous people that live in poverty in our country.  Some wonderings we had were:
-"Why are there more Indigenous people living in poverty?"
-"Why was such harm done to the Indigenous people?"
-"This survey was in 2011, have these numbers changed?"
-"Why are groups not helping?"
-"Are there more Indigenous people in shelters?"
-"Is the government fully helping Indigenous people as much as they can?"

Over the next few weeks we will continue to look at answering these important questions.