Across Canada, people and organizations have been looking for ways to honour and remember the 215 children who’s bodies were found in a mass grave from a residential school in Kamloops BC over the weekend.
The Kettle and Stony Point Family Well Being Program joined in with many others as they collected children shoes, all of which were placed around the Kettle Point Monument.
What started out as an original goal of collecting 215 shoes, one for each child, quickly turned into more, and that limit was lifted as the community kept wanting to show their support.
Kimberly Bressette, a member of the program said that for First Nations people this has been felt because this kids are their brothers and sisters, no matter where in canada they are.
For the rest of Canadians, continuing to educate everyone on what really happened at these schools, and to continue having these conversations is the only way change will happen.
The monument was not the only thing Kettle and Stoney Point Family Well being program did, they also encouraged people to put shoes or a teddy bear outside their homes on their door step on May 31st, as another act of honoring these victims.
Photo taken by: Rudy Bressette jr. Used with permission from the Kettle & Stony Point Family Well Being Program
