Up With Women Child Advocate Receives Plaque
Briar Rose Perrier
Briar became an Up With Women child advocate in the summer of 2008. One of her first tasks was to come up with a community impact idea that would allow her to give back to the kinds of organizations who served her and her mom when Briar was a baby. Briar decided that she wanted to make and sell bracelets and raise the money for the temporary native women's housing building that housed Briar and her mother, for the first 9 months of Briar's life. The organization is called Nekenaan; an organization run under Anduhyaun.
Briar raised $2,000 and delivered the donation to her shelter on the 10 year anniversary of Briar arriving in the shelter, with her mom, as a newborn.
The Deputy Premier of Ontario, along with the Minister of Municipal Affairs and Housing, and the Minister of Aboriginal affairs, were so impressed that they awarded Briar a plaque to congratulate her for her leadership.
All three ministers bought bracelets from Briar, as did many members of the press.
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