We are the Prairieaction Foundation (PAF), a Prairie-based organization, established in 1997 with a national mission to raise and grant funds; to sustain a Prairie network that seeks Research and Education for Solutions to Violence and abuse; to support national community partnerships pursing the same goal; to establish an educational and awareness program based on these results.
We are a unique Canadian Foundation that directly funds community-based research into causes and solutions to violence and abuse.
We see the value in bringing academics together with front-line agencies such as women's shelters and child abuse services, to create research projects that produce results in our communities. Accountability, in the form of effective practices and measurable outcomes, is enhanced by such research partnerships. |
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"The Last Goodbye" 2001
Abraham Anghik Ruben
Brazilian soapstone, Collection of Christian Steckler
"I clearly remember when this took place - my mother sitting with my older brother and sister, David and Martha, just before they left for the Mission school in Aklavik. David was five years old at the time and Martha was only a little older. It was a scene that was repeated later on when my other brothers and I were went off to residential school. But this time, it was sadder for my mother because it would be three years that David and Martha would be gone. They left in 1955 and we didn't see them again until the latter part of 1958. These three years had a permanent impact on my brother's life." |