Saskatoon symposium advancing Black education, collaboration

As February marks Black History Month, the Saskatchewan assemblage came unneurotic to observe Black achievements this week astatine a symposium successful Saskatoon.

The symposium, hosted by the Truly Alive Youth and Family Foundation Inc (TAYFFI), is successful its 2nd year. Programming is dedicated to creating abstraction for collaboration, acquisition and celebration.

“We consciousness and proceed to judge that if radical travel unneurotic and stock abstraction and make opportunities for dialogue, past determination volition beryllium a batch of deprogramming and a caller accidental for caller learning,” said Anthony Olusola, TAYFFI’s enforcement director.

The enactment is 1 of galore supporting Saskatchewan newcomers and providing education.

“Organizations are ever moving towards removing barriers to each newcomers to Canada,” said Ali Abukar, CEO of the Saskatoon Open Door Society.  “(We want) number groups oregon racialized radical of colour and Black radical to person adjacent opportunities.”

The symposium saw implicit 250 participants this week, including members of the government. Abukar said that portion I’d encouraging to spot much Black radical successful enactment roles, determination a batch much enactment to beryllium done.

“We anticipation to spot a spot much engagement and practice truthful that each the younger generations of Black assemblage members spot themselves represented,” helium explained.

Among those successful attendance was assemblage subordinate Archie Robertson.

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“My woman came to Canada arsenic an immigrant, truthful I’m not wholly unfamiliar with the concern immoderate radical person to face,” Robertson said. “But we lived successful a tiny town, and it’s been absorbing coming to Saskatoon and seeing the magnitude of resources (available).”

For the organizers, the symposium has been a peculiar abstraction to turn and learn. They anticipation it tin proceed for years to come.

“The information that we are having a abstraction wherever we tin clasp a Black-led league specified arsenic this successful and of itself is recognition to the Saskatchewan community,” Olusola said.

“Black past and Black contributions and designation of that is not lone constricted to the period of February,” Abukar said. “We privation radical to admit that yearlong.”