Employment gathering supports future generations in the work force – Anishinabek News
December 12, 2024
THUNDER BAY — The Feathers of Hope held an employment gathering with support from the Future Generations Foundation on Nov. 28 at the Valhalla Hotel and Conference Centre in Thunder Bay.
“We use this opportunity to bring together young people and in this instance, educators as well as Indigenous employers, to talk about what they want or see in terms of hiring Indigenous young people,” says Betty Kennedy, CEO at Feathers of Hope and a Red Rock Indian Band citizen. “[The] young people themselves spoke about some of their personal issues as it relates to both education and employment and the struggles that they face, and they hopefully will give us some very specific recommendations about how to improve those systems in order to facilitate better attendance at both.”
