Truth and Reconciliation Day – Orange Shirts on the Menno Place campus
All over the Menno Place campus, staff, residents and visitors showed their commitment to our Truth and Reconciliation with our indigenous communities. Kathrin McMath, COO, shared the website (below) with the leadership team as a way to reflect on the reason we have this important national statutory day:
From the UBD Indian Residential School History and Dialogue Centre (click here):
ABOUT ORANGE SHIRT DAY | NATIONAL DAY FOR TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION
EVERY CHILD MATTERS
Between the late 1800s and 1996, more than 150,000 First Nations, Métis and Inuit children attended Indian residential schools. Orange Shirt Day | National Day for Truth and Reconciliation commemorates this legacy.
The Orange Shirt Day movement was started by Phyllis Webstad, a member of the Stswecem’c Xgat’tem First Nation and former residential school student, to honour Survivors and intergenerational Survivors, and to remember those children who never made it home. Orange Shirt Day is an opportunity for people of all ages, backgrounds, and cultural identities to engage with the legacies of the residential school system.
Read more and watch videos – CLICK HERE
