I'll start.
I think the work that the Newfoundland Aboriginal Women's Network is doing in our violence prevention initiative using a train-the-trainer approach is a success story. We're hearing from the women that there's a lot of empowerment. Many of the women who came and agreed to become trainers didn't have formal education. They had never facilitated. Many of them were victims of violence themselves and have lived a lifetime of abuse. In 14 months, we saw these women grow as if we had planted them in fertile soil. They became stronger communicators, stronger leaders. They were willing to go back into their communities and share what they'd learned.
One of the individuals just went to a workshop in Nova Scotia on starting a business. Several of them have gone back to school and have successfully completed formal training and are now working full-time. They've found their voice.
As I slipped in earlier this morning, I heard that cultural revitalization was being alluded to as being very important. And it is very important. There are women who have never heard or held a drum, who have never participated in a sweetgrass ceremony, and suddenly they are gathering in circles. Because of the work we're doing, schools are calling and asking us to come out. Seniors centres are asking us to come out. Community groups are asking us to come and share. The culture is now something we can be proud of. We turn to it. We always ask what our culture tells us, what we should do. We go to our elders and ask, rather than trying to find solutions out of a dictionary or off a Google search. We go to our elders and ask how we can do it. We sit in circle. If there's an issue, we sit in a circle and talk it through, and it works.
I'm very proud to say that I think we have a model solution.