We've had many project-based funds to develop some capacity. We've worked with indigenous youth, for example, to teach them about their body and their agency over their own body and how they get to decide if and when somebody gets to touch them and how. We've spent some time doing that, but that was through project-based funding and that's over.
We've done a lot of research work looking at the sex trafficking of indigenous girls who are sometimes in our housing projects or in our poorer neighbourhoods and who are being targeted by traffickers. We've worked with those women and girls to try to teach them how to protect their bodies and protect themselves and how to seek help and resources.
A telephone company has very generously donated to us 1,000 phones with talk and text so that if indigenous women and girls are reduced to having to hitchhike to and from their community into a local town or wherever, then they hopefully have some safety. Sometimes that works. Oftentimes, there are dead spots. There are still very many dead spots in B.C. for cellular service, so that's not always applicable.
Recently, we started to develop some training and capacity for indigenous women to provide anti-violence support services to indigenous women and girls. Generally in B.C. it is not the case that you can call a helpline and get an indigenous person on the end of it. One of the areas we've been really working on lately is developing our own capacity to provide services by and for indigenous women and girls.