Mentoring
The Imbizo Event originally scheduled for June 2020 in Durban, South Africa was planned to have a focus on mentoring and creating mentoring opportunities between the girls and young women from South Africa and the Indigenous girls and young women from Canada. While it was disappointing to not have this face to face mentoring opportunity take place, it was exciting to see mentoring appear in the showcases from South Africa and Canada. The Girls Leading Change and Young Girls Leading Change came together to create a cellphilm reflecting on their time in N4C and the growth they experienced individually and collectively. Ohpikihihcik okawiymaw onikanewa: Raising Matriarchs featured the Generation 1 girls and the Generation 2 girls of Young Indigenous Women's Utopia coming together to create the mural. Interviews with the Generation 1 girls highlighted their roles as mentors to the younger girls and the bond created between the two generations of girls. Finally there was also ‘behind he scenes’ evidence of mentoring in the coedited youth produced book Circle Back , something that the editors highlighted as ‘learning from each other’.
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