Sergeant David Jones, one of our 2019 10th Mile Champions, has been a leading voice for families facing violence in our community, and a strong advocate and supporter of the work YWCA Edmonton does each day to assist those most in need. To mark 10 years of YWCA WALK A MILE IN HER SHOES®, we
Not only does the team hold the distinction of being the top fundraising team so far for the 2019 event, they also have the current Top Three individual fundraisers. Co-captains Sergeant Mike Elliott and Dr. John Lilley are aiming to be the largest, most successful fundraising team that Walk a Mile Edmonton has ever seen
In the summer of 2013, Curtis Hargrove walked from his home in Cold Lake to Edmonton. He made the nearly 300-kilometre journey in ruby-red high heels. “When I started, they were four-inch heels but by the time I was done, they were about two inches,” Hargrove says. The less-than-ideal walking shoes gave Hargrove blisters and
The idiom is old and familiar: “Before you judge a man, walk a mile in his shoes.” As children, it’s innocently taken quite literally while thinking about the array of different shoes people wore: how much of a difference would it really make to walk in cowboy boots rather than stiletto heels? Of course, with
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The devastating discovery of 215 children at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School is a painful reminder of the residential school system’s horrific legacy of violence and abuse. The YWCAs of Alberta mourn these children, and extend our sincere and heartfelt condolences to the survivors, families and all First Nations people throughout Turtle Island. Without Truth, there can be no Reconciliation. The traumas that communities, families, and survivors of residential schools endured have been passed
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