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The Aboriginal Media program is proud to announce that funding for the Youth Services Canada Initiative has been approved by Human Resources Development Canada in the amount of $117,000.00. "This project will help bring our youth back to their heritage and develop their life skills in a manner consistent with our Aboriginal culture," says Monique Manatch, Program Developer of the Aboriginal Media Program at First Nations Technical Institute. "We've just put a number of projects together using the Youth Service model and we were happy to fund a project trying to serve a community with a different type of application," says Richard Rashotte, Programs and Services Officer at the Belleville Human Resources Canada Centre. The focus of this project is to train 12 Aboriginal youth in various forms of media. It is designed to build life and employment skills and personal development through the expression of print and on-line publications, web page design, audio and video production and the use of the information highway. The content of all productions and publications will concern the language and history of the Mohawk nation and issues surrounding the community. Language lessons, oral narratives, historical accounts and life lessons will be passed on to the youth in the Mohawk tradition. Local member of parliament and Agriculture Minister Lyle Vanclief was very positive about the project. "The participants in this program will be offered the tremendous opportunity to gain valuable job skills...But equally as important is the program's focus on heritage and increasing the student's sense of their Mohawk culture and language."
The project is scheduled to start in January 1999. |