Congratulations to the four working tables whose requests for financial support from the Project Fund for Social and Economic Change have been approved.
The Justice, Economic Development, Sports and Recreation and Social Working Tables were all approved for funding. The Project Fund will subsidize each working table’s projects.
In the coming months each working table will be rolling out their plans – we look forward to seeing the results and wish them all the best in their endeavours.
Read on for some general information on each working table’s project entails.
Sports and Rec
The Sports and Recreation Working Table’s project is a bid to increase community wellbeing by increasing the participation of Mi’kmaq women and girls in meaningful sport, recreation and physical activity opportunities.
This will be carried out through a forthcoming Mi’kmaq Women and Girls Participation in Sprot, Recreation, and Physical Activity Action Plan. This plan will be drafted with the help of a consultant, tasked with gathering information, engagement and writing.
Social
The Social Working Table is planning a Homelessness Symposium with its Project Fund support.
The Homelessness Symposium, focused on Mi’kmaq communities and helping the most vulnerable in the community, will identify gaps and barriers, creating an actionable, decolonized approach to dealing with homelessness.
The symposium – expected to include 100 attendees – will bring together Community Members who are experiencing (or who have experienced) homelessness or housing insecurity and the people who work with them those people and their communities.
Ec Dev
The Economic Development working table is going to use its Project Fund support to host an Economic Knowledge and Capacity Symposium.
The two-day event aims to inspire and equip those who attend with relationships and knowledge to bring positive change in their communities.
The symposium aims to find economic development and employment opportunities in the critical miners, green hydrogen, renewable energy and tourism sectors – and it will involve economic development officers, Indigenous employment officers from the 13 Nova Scotian First Nation, the Economic Development Working Committee, Indigenous organizations and federal and provincial funders.
Justice
The Justice Committee’s Glooscap Stories (Gluskabewimk) Project aims to establish Mi’kmaq laws and legal principles based on ethics, rules, principles values and laws found within the teachings of traditional Glooscap stories.
The committee will work with L’nuwey Tplutaqan Wikuom (the Indigenous Law Lodge) at Dalhousie’s Schulich School of Law to analyze the Glooscap stories and discern teachings that can be codified into laws.
