Hope Arises Inc. has received a second $15,000 grant from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada (TRC) to continue with the Emily Redbreast initiative.
Joyce Crone, founder of Hope Arises Project Inc., says the initiative started last year with the first $10,000 TRC grant they received.
She says last year they wrote a book about Emily Redbreast, a girl who grew up on Brunswick House First Nation in Chapleau, Ontario.
“She went to the St John’s Indian Residential School in Chapleau and died there and never made it home,” says Crone. “Hope Arises will be publishing a book for grades seven and eight right through to grade 12, and that’ll be available in 2025.”
Crone adds the book is called Emily Redbreast Remember Us.
She says this year they will be working with her family members who still live in the community to create a commemorative event with the new grant Hope Arises received.
“[The community] is planning on adding to that amount another $15,000,” shares Crone. “It will be a total of $30,000 that we will be able to create a youth and elder day and support them and the youth and the elders in that Brunswick House First Nations community.”
Crone says further details will be provided as the initiative develops.
