National Day of Awareness highlights MLTC planning and support of both men and women
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In observance of the National Day of Awareness of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls on May 5, Meadow Lake Tribal Council (MLTC) is consistently developing ways to honour their legacy .
Flora Fiddler, Senior Director of Health and Social Development with MLTC told meadowlakeNOW the focus of MLTC’s missing and murdered files may have emphasized women’s issues in the past, however their updated support programs now encompass men.
“They’ve been missing too and we don’t honour that in a way so at the Tribal Council we want to make sure they’re included because we know men have gone missing from their situations and while we observe women and girls, there is a minority of men who are not recognized,” she said.
Within the past year, MLTC have accomplished a range of projects to commemorate those missing and murdered, inclusive of memorial stones placed in all nine MLTC First Nations. MLTC’s program to support those living with a loss is blanketed with residential school survivor programs offering one-on-one counselling support to families and community members who have been impacted.
