Ontario’s first Indigenous owned and led healing lodge for Indigenous women is coming to the GTA. And our doors can’t open soon enough! Indigenous over-representation in Canada’s jails was already a crisis, but the Covid-19 pandemic has proven just how urgently our community-based Healing Lodge and transitional housing program for First Nations, Inuit, and Metis women leaving corrections is needed!
We’ve achieved major steps already, including buying the land and securing zoning approval in 2019! Now we’re refining the building design to build a cultural landmark with minimal environmental footprint and preparing for land blessing.
Support our fundraising campaign today to help our through these next crucial steps! We’re targeting construction for late 2020 through 2021 – but every day that Indigenous women are released without adequate supports in place leaves them vulnerable to the very same forces that led to their prior conflict with the law!