Residents will soon move into new housing built specifically for Indigenous elders and seniors in Calgary.
In a media release, the Aboriginal Friendship Centre of Calgary said the building is a 12-unit facility, which provides affordable housing for elders and cultural gathering spaces. Residents will move in this month."This will not just be a building, but a safe space for Indigenous seniors who are 'vulnerable' or 'at-risk' and have likely experienced discrimination, abuse, exclusion and hardship.
Blackfoot elder Jackie Bromley described the Elders' Lodge as "a safe space to live for elders to build communication, explore language and reconnect with culture.""Our culture and our traditional knowledge is oral. So since our culture was our knowledge — it wasn't written then we need the language to access the knowledge, and the elders have the knowledge and the language.
"By providing not only safe and affordable places to live but also a variety of cultural activities and supports, the Elders' Lodge promises to be yet another shining example of the effectiveness of Indigenous-led solutions," Alberta Minister of Indigenous Relations Rick Wilson, said in a media release.
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