This is from a retired child protection worker named Lorraine Loranger. She used to work in Inuit communities in Northern Quebec. Her plan is to walk across Canada to raise awareness and funds for housing for families in those northern communities. She plans to start in April 2016 from the west coast. She is making contact with local mayors all along her route in preparation for her walk next year. She will be visiting Elliot Lake next year on her walk and has already met with our Mayor Dan. Below is the information she sent if anyone wants to contact her regarding her walk next year.
NO
CHILD SHOULD HAVE TO TAKE THE LONG WAY HOME
Elliot
Lake, July 27, 2015
I
wish to publicize the whole-hearted encouragement offered me by the
esteemed mayor of Elliot Lake.
After
recently contacting Mayor Dan Marchisella by email regarding my
8000-kilometre walk from coast to coast (Victoria, BC to Antigonish,
NS) beginning next April, I was invited to meet with him this
Wednesday, July 29, 2015.
From
my professional work with the Inuit community in Northern Quebec in
2009/10 and further to the report tabled by the Honourable Mr.
Justice Murray Sinclair to the Commission of Truth and
Reconciliation, I plan to:
- raise awareness around the reality of Inuit women and children;
- raise funds to build a safe house for the children of Salluit, a Nunavik village in Northern Quebec.
For
more information about No
Child Should Take the Long Way Home,
visit my blog
at http://quinuituq-en.blogspot.ca/p/my-first-studies-i-was-born-in-ontario.html.
Contact
Information :
Lorraine
Loranger
7255,
rue des Gaspareaux
Terrebonne,
QC J7M 0E7
Tel :
438-863-5454
