Grantee Spotlight
We are three youth coming together to help our youth have more opportunities and awareness for themselves to grow and thrive here and out of our community. Learning different teachings and skills can really help gain balance in shaping who we are as Indigenous Youth in Canada, with our overall knowledge and experiences of our wellbeing and wellness with the land and our inner self.
We are trying to have an outdoor classroom built so kids can have experience learning outside on the land.
Our group consists of Indigenous youth from grades 9-12. For our project, we are focused on community building, environmental restoration, and cultural activities.
Letters to the Land is an always evolving community-based arts and connection project that aims to support Indigenous, Black and Racialized youth in connecting with the land. We aim to do this through a loving connection to Mother Earth grounded in love letters, community wellness and individual and community ceremony.
Our team initiated a transformative project, organizing a 3-day fish camp for urban Métis youth from Winnipeg in the Métis community of St. Laurent. The camp aimed to connect youth with traditional harvesting skills, fostering a sense of community and cultural empowerment.
Seeding & Beading: A Community Land-Based Method to Counter-Memorializing Sites of Difficult History is a MAED thesis project, that looks at community and land-based practices to transform our relationships to difficult sites of histories.
The Waterways Collective is an Anishinaabe paddling collective whose interests are retracing their ancestral waterways.
Sagkeeng Youth Group partnered with Sagkeeng Anicinabe High School to create Gitigandaawiin, a solar-powered 3-season Greenhouse that is run by students at the school.
Youth4Youth Canada creates and manages projects to improve the lives of youth in Canada through arts, culture and health education.
We formed in December 2021. Logan pitched the idea of having an Indigenous Youth Conference in our community to a number of dedicated individuals, and they all believed it was a great idea
We are an Indigenous-led initiative helping womxn reconnect to ancient cultural teachings through providing access to education, resources and community.
The BIPOC2COP Project is a peer-support initiative, by and for BIPOC youth, launched in 2021 as a resource for Indigenous and racialized youth participating in the yearly United Nations climate change conferences. The project builds on over a decade of experiences from Indigenous, racialized, and youth climate activists in so-called Canada who have been advocating for climate justice in the yearly Conference of the Parties (COP) of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). At these conferences, governments from around the world discuss global cooperation in the fight against climate change.
