Canada's Fraser International College Awareness Campaign Team aims to improve understanding of Indigenous Peoples, their land and culture.
Student Experience Coordinator Amanat Sandhu explains.
The FIC Awareness Campaign Team (FIC ACT) is a volunteer team at Fraser International College. FIC ACT hosts multiple awareness events and campaigns every semester that support, and help increase awareness of the FIC community. Some of the events hosted by FIC ACT over the past few semesters include Sustainability in the time of COVID, Mental health Awareness, From Body Shaming to Body Shinning and many more.
Last semester an FIC ACT team comprising of students Sukhman Gosal, Bianca Rosary, Stella Faustin, and Bryan Wan hosted an asynchronous event around Indigenous Awareness and Representation in collaboration with FIC’s INDG101 Instructor Ms. Treena Chambers.
The main purpose of the event was to raise awareness in the FIC Community about Indigenous peoples, their land and culture. Our aim was to reach as many people as possible, including new and continuing students.
As a team, hosting this event was important to us for many reasons; one being that many international students that come to Canada (or plan on coming) are unaware of the significance of the land that both Canada and the FIC campus occupy, even though British Columbia has the greatest diversity of First Nations People cultures in Canada. We also wanted to address and dispel some of the myths about Indigenous peoples and their communities.
It was important for us to present accurate and culturally appropriate information. We were able to achieve that with the help of FIC’s Introduction to Indigenous Studies Instructor Treena Chambers. All the information shared was thoroughly reviewed and approved by Ms. Chambers.
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