YWCA Regina and SGI Canada partner to support new building [Video]

SGI Canada and YWCA Regina have a new partnership that will go towards funding the organization’s new Kikakihtânaw Centre for Women and Families.

The agreement is worth $2 million and will help fund the healing lodge at the new site.

“This donation is a transformational piece that will help us ensure that the sacred site and the healing lodge are able to be a space where so much programming, so many people can come and meet with elders, can learn, have access to ceremony,” said YWCA Regina’s CEO Melissa Coomber-Bendtsen.

“It also acts as a way for the rest of the community to understand and learn around treaties, around Indigenous ways of knowing and being.”

The contribution from SGI Canada will be made in three installments to support operational and programming costs.

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