The girls are back at Stardale for 2023 and exploring some fo our biggest projects yet!

The Indigenous teens involved with The Road, a short film written by and starring members of the Stardale Women's Group in Calgary, talk about making a short film exploring themes tied to the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls and the legacy of colonialism in Canada.

My children and I had decided to dye shirts as our school decided students could wear orange for the week instead of their uniforms. We were having so much fun dying shirts and we started talking about the fact that not many people have enough orange shirts to get through the week. We figured out our cost and decided to take preorders that day and make as many shirts as we could! We put it on our community Facebook page and my personal page and advertised for $15 a shirt. After our supply cost was covered, we were able to donate $9 from each shirt. With around 70 orders and a few extra donations, we finished our project with $721.00 to donate to Stardale Women’s Group!

“215”

Anyone who is thinking, caring, compassionate – anyone who has a heart – will know exactly what this number represents. Maybe you can ignore the findings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, maybe you can not notice the findings of the Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, but it’s hard not to feel that number, 215.