(Ottawa, ON) – May 29, 2023 – The Legacy of Hope Foundation (LHF) is pleased to announce that we have received a grant from the Ontario Trillium Foundation’s Resilient Communities Fund. This investment will help us produce a series of high quality instructional videos that cover topics such as hydroponics setup and growing, traditional Indigenous recipes, local foraging of ingredients – in order to strengthen and add to our growing library of food sovereignty programming for Indigenous communities and groups across Ontario.

“Thanks to the Ontario Trillium Foundation, we can capture food related knowledge in a format that we hope can overcome technical barriers and bring a hands-on teaching experience to participants where ever they are.” Said Teresa Edwards, Executive Director and In-House Legal Counsel at LHF. “These resources will help families and communities get inspired to grow healthy food and practice their own forms of food sovereignty while keeping cultural practices alive.”

The LHF is a national, Indigenous-led, charitable organization that has been working to promote healing and Reconciliation in Canada for over 25 years. The LHF’s goal is to educate Canadians about the history and existing intergenerational impacts of the Residential and Day School Systems and subsequent Child Welfare System on Indigenous (First Nations, Inuit, and Métis) Survivors, their descendants, and their communities to address discrimination against Indigenous Peoples, and to promote hope and healing in Canada. The LHF works to encourage Canadians to address discrimination and injustice to contribute to the equity, dignity, and respectful treatment of all.

The LHF has more than 30 educational exhibitions that educate Canadians about Indigenous history and that are free to borrow. LHF also has curriculums for K -12 and for adults, along with Activity Guides, Workshops and Training, and two Podcast series, all aimed at educating Canadians about Indigenous history and the shared history of Residential and Day Schools, the Child Welfare System, and other colonial acts of oppression. The LHF works to develop empathy and understanding to eliminate ongoing racism against Indigenous Peoples and to foster Reconciliation in Canada.

For media inquiries, please contact:
Teresa Edwards, B.A., LL.B / J.D.
Directrice générale et conseillère juridique interne
Fondation autochtone de l’espoir
tedwards@legacyofhope.ca