National Day of Healing and Reconciliation for residential school survivors
May 20, 2005 - 5:48am | by Anonymous
May 26 is being set recognized by groups across Canada as our National Day of Healing and Reconciliation. Events are being planned by different groups across the country to support residential school survivors.
From the official National Day of Healing and Reconciliation web site at http://www.ndhr.ca
Mission Statement
National Day of Healing and Reconciliation is a movement of people committed to moving forward collectively within our families, communites and across Canada for the purposes of healing and reconciliation.
Objectives
- To celebrate a positive, collective healing and reconciliation movement within our families, communities, churches and government on May 26th of each year.
- To educate ourselves and other Canadians about our collective history of government policies which impacted Aboriginal communities and other ethnic groups.
- To develop commemoration sites and to encourage communites to join in the National Day of Healing and Reconciliation.