National Day of Awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls

CANADA, Might 5 – Might 5 is Nationwide Day of Consciousness for Lacking and Murdered Indigenous Ladies and Women (MMIWG). It’s a day to carry consciousness and to acknowledge and honour the misplaced lives of Indigenous ladies and women.  

“In the present day we replicate on and honour the lives of Indigenous ladies, women and 2SLGBTQIA+ which have tragically been reduce quick by gender-based violence. It can be crucial that each one Islanders acknowledge the disproportionate charges of violence dedicated towards Indigenous ladies and women. At the present time is about bringing consciousness to MMIWG and reaffirming our dedication to addressing the Requires Justice as we work tirelessly to finish to gender-based violence in Prince Edward Island.” 

– Premier Dennis King

The Authorities of Prince Edward Island’s annual standing report, The Requires Justice: Lacking and Murdered Indigenous Ladies and Women was tabled at the moment within the Legislative Meeting. Within the 2022 report, the 4 primary priorities are schooling/coaching, well being, housing and help for MMIWG work in communities. 

In 2020, the Authorities of Prince Edward Island created the MMIWG Indigenous Working Group that’s composed of presidency officers and representatives from Abegweit First Nation, Aboriginal Ladies’s Affiliation of PEI, Lennox Island First Nation, Mi’kmaq Confederacy of PEI and Native Council of PEI. For this 12 months, the group really useful the report be extra reflective of Indigenous tradition and custom with a brand new format extra accessible and visually interesting with quite a few pictures and illustrations. 

Highlights of this 12 months’s MMIWG report embrace: 

• Improvement of a brand new curriculum element for Grade 7 college students specializing in Indigenous content material, information and methods of realizing;  
• Funding of $500,000 for Indigenous housing initiatives; 
• Creation of an Indigenous Well being Navigator inside Well being PEI; 
• Creation of packages akin to Indigenous Genuine PEI Experiential Tourism, offering monetary help to the Lennox Island First Nation Improvement Company to create homegrown tourism experiences for guests to expertise wealthy Mi’kmaq tradition in PEI; 
• Infrastructure help to the Abegweit Fish Hatchery; 
• Funding of $51,755 to the Native Council of PEI for a Males and Boys Coordinator to assist tackle gender-based violence throughout the Indigenous group; 
• Implementation of a $250,000 MMIWG Fund to help First Nations and Indigenous organizations pursue initiatives that advance the Requires Justice throughout the Province.

The Authorities of Prince Edward Island acknowledges the significance of schooling and consciousness in ending violence towards Indigenous ladies and women. The province will proceed to advance initiatives and packages that help the implementation of the MMIWG Requires Justice, whereas guaranteeing that ongoing schooling and consciousness enhances this vital work.

Media Contact:

Nicole Yeba

Govt Council Workplace 

Bilingual Senior Communications Officer

ntyeba@gov.pe.ca