Indian Residential School Survivors Society

Healing and Commemoration

Please join The Horse Barn for their fundraiser supporting the Indian Residential School Survivors Society. "Healing and Commemoration" was designed to promote healing.

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"Healing and Commemoration" was designed to promote healing and recognition for over 150,000 Indigenous children (survivors and victims') who were removed from their families and communities to attend residential schools across Canada. The first church-run residential school opened in 1831, with the government adopting the idea and opening more across Canada in 1880. These schools operated until 1997.

This blanket serves to honor and bring awareness to the survivors of residential schools, as well as to remember those who did not survive. A portion of the proceeds from the sale of these blankets will be donated to the Indian Residential School Survivors Society (IRSSS) as well as Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc - Le Estcwicwéy̓.

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About the charity

Indian Residential School Survivors Society

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IRSSS provides essential services to Residential School Survivors, their families, and those dealing with Intergenerational traumas. These impacts affect every family and every community across B.C. and Canada. This fact is most evident in the Corrections Canada Services-the numbers of First Nations people incarcerated, Child and Family Services child apprehensions, the high number of people on social assistance, unemployment and underemployed, lower levels of education, the lowest number within an ethnic minority of “determinants of health”, the list of impacts is extremely high while the services available to effectively assist impacts of Residential Schools remain quite low.

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