NWSD Orange Shirt Day honours residential school students
A design contest creating T-shirts is helping students in the Northwest School Division (NWSD) honour residential school students, while also creating public awareness.
Communications Officer Kaitlin Harman said that the participation level for the Orange Shirt Day contest has been good division-wide, and awareness of the initiative has been positive. The theme of the event is ‘Every Child Matters.’
“Last year was the first year we got all the schools involved with recognizing Orange Shirt Day,” she said. “Transition Place Education Centre had held their own contest, and saw great success. Because of that, we wanted to set it up to have it as a division wide project.
Orange Shirt Day recognizes and honours students who attended residential school, and is symbolic of one young girl’s experience, Harman noted.