(Ottawa, ON) January 20, 2022 – The Legacy of Hope Foundation (LHF) is grateful for the donation made by Jazmin Johnson. Through donations such as theirs, the LHF can continue our work and mandate of increasing awareness about the impacts of the Residential and Day School System and the Sixties Scoop.

“We honour Jazmin’s donation. Through education, we can create an understanding of the harms that Indigenous Peoples across Canada have endured and continue to face as a result of racism and abuses experienced at Residential and Day School and with other acts of colonial oppression. When we work together to acknowledge this shared history, it is my hope that we learn from the mistakes that segregation and discrimination have caused in the past, so that it never happens again,” said Ms. Teresa Edwards, Executive Director and In-House Legal Counsel at the LHF.

The LHF is a national, Indigenous-led, charitable organization that has been working to promote healing and Reconciliation in Canada for over 21 years. The LHF’s goal is to educate and raise awareness about the history and existing intergenerational impacts of the Residential and Day School Systems and subsequent Sixties Scoop on Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis) Survivors, their descendants, and their communities to promote hope and healing in Canada. The LHF works to encourage people to address discrimination and injustice in order to contribute to the equity, dignity, and respectful treatment of Indigenous Peoples and to foster Reconciliation.

La FAE dispose de plus de 25 expositions accessibles au public et travaille à rendre ses autres expositions disponibles en ligne. La Fondation possède également des programmes d'enseignement de la maternelle à la 12e année et pour les adultes, ainsi que des guides d'activités visant à sensibiliser les Canadiens à l'histoire autochtone et à l'histoire commune des pensionnats et des externats, de la Rafle des années 60, etc. La FAE travaille à développer l'empathie et la compréhension afin d'éliminer le racisme à l’égard des peuples autochtones.