A class in Deerwood School is hosting a walk next week to honour Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls, and are looking to get the other local schools to participate.
Sarah Schroeder, a grade seven teacher at the school, says the walk is part of a project for her social studies class, where they pick a social justice topic, research it, and communicate that research to the community.
Here, Schroeder explains the route for the walk.
“We will have an RCMP escort and we could be taking up one or two lanes of traffic starting in front of Deerwood School and down Beaver Crescent to Deerwood Drive. A left onto Cree Road and left onto Thompson Drive all the way down to the end in front of Deerwood School again. Our plan is to start the walk at 2pm sharp and ending at Deerwood School by 3pm.”
The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls walk will be held on Thursday, May 5th, coinciding with Red Dress Day.
To learn more about the walk, hear the full interview on Thompson Today at 12:40 and 5:10 this afternoon.
