New initiatives are cropping up across Canada in response to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s call to develop and hire more Indigenous talent
Roberta Jamieson, president and CEO of Indspire, is seen with students at the 2019 Soaring: Indigenous Youth Empowerment Gathering. Indspire is a national Indigenous registered charity that invests in the education of First Nations, Inuit and Métis people.This summer, despite the economic pall cast by the coronavirus pandemic, a national charity that provides scholarships to financially strapped Indigenous students has seen an unexpected influx of new individual donors.
Since 2004, the charity has raised and distributed more than 42,500 scholarships and bursaries worth $132-million. New research by Indspire has found that 90 per cent of those scholarship and bursary recipients graduate and find work. Their ranks include doctors, lawyers, engineers, technology specialists, scientists, social workers and other professionals.
In receiving support from organizations like Indspire and other sponsors, Dr. Ryan Danroth, a family practice resident in Nanaimo, B.C., feels privileged to be in a position to care for others, and grateful for the support he received along the way. “I can’t stress enough how much monetary contributions help when you don’t have financial support from anywhere else,” says Dr. Danroth, whose professional interests include early disease prevention, prison health and addiction.
Vayda Kaviok, a second-year nursing student at Nunavet Arctic College in Iqaluit, aims eventually to become a psychiatric nurse. Fluent in Inuktitut, she hopes to help people with mental health issues who struggle to communicate in English. Among other things, the financial support from Indspire enabled her to buy a stethoscope and scrubs.
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