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of aboriginal families and critical to the development of positive
self-image in our children. This project will enhance the cultural and spiritual well being of urban aboriginal children and families while creating a revenue generating enterprise to benefit the urban aboriginal community. There are four components to the project (see below).
1. The Little League of First Nations: A program for children to explore and discover their nation’s stories, traditional song, dances and ceremonies.
2. Living History: A family program to teach fundamental video recoding techniques to record and document individual, family and community history. There will also be a documentary film, ‘Shooting the shooters’. The instructors of the video and media technologies will also shoot a documentary about the entire process to create a permanent record of the Little League of Nations project.
3. A is for Aboriginal: This will grow out of the Little League of First Nations and Living History projects and will be supported by a professional research team that will be augmented by a number of graduate students and their research teams. This part of the project will create the A is for Aboriginal Reader Series and Book/Music CD as well as a number of ECD toys and training materials (print, video & DVD).
4. VASE - Vancouver Aboriginal Social Enterprise. The final component is the development of the communications and e-commerce portal that will be the basis of the social enterprise. In addition to incubating a new community based social enterprise there will be a free distribution of over $160,000.00 worth of ECD materials in the Vancouver area. These will include 1500 book/music CDs, readers, toys and parental training material and thousands of handbooks, brochures and illustrated community asset maps.
| The Urban Aboriginal high school drop out rate is over 50%. Early Childhood Literacy is part of the solution. |
