Status of Women committee  It's happening now within the high school. They have Wahsa Distance Education, and that's done over the radio. So it is possible. They have video conferencing facilities now that are available for meetings, and also for classrooms and workshops. It's possible to have more distanc

Status of Women committee  I think there needs to be more funding, because I know the facilities they have within the communities might not be up to par with whatever's happening in the towns or cities.

Status of Women committee  Well, we used to have the fetal alcohol syndrome program, but we no longer have it. It's kind of moved off into its own office, so away from Equay-wuk. The fetal alcohol spectrum disorder moneys are given to the Nishnawbe Aski Nation. That's a bigger organization, and they look a

Status of Women committee  Not specifically on FASD. We usually tell people who call us to call NAN because they get funding for that program. As for the Status of Women funding for the intern, that person...there's no such person with us. We don't have Status of Women funding.

Status of Women committee  The funding is project funding. Each project or each program that is happening within our organization is able to fund a part-time bookkeeper and a program director, for the time being--

Status of Women committee  Well, it comes from the different programs. Each program might put in, I don't know, 15% into the admin.

Status of Women committee  We don't even have a person who is hired within our organization to write the funding, but I usually end up doing it as an extra duty.

Status of Women committee  Yes.

Status of Women committee  Yes, some of them.

Status of Women committee  Overworked. But there's another person who looks after the training proposals, so it's not just me doing the whole thing, no.

Status of Women committee  No.

Status of Women committee  That's why we decided to put in place the early childhood program; women wanted to work and they wanted to go to school, but there was no place for them to leave their children. We started that. Currently there are eight students in that program. They study in their homes, but

Status of Women committee  Yes, that's the big question, I think, for the leadership, for the chiefs, to get together and talk about. I'm sure there are some communities that are involved with mining and forestry. People are getting jobs through those sources, but for a lot of communities--

Status of Women committee  They're kind of nearby, I guess.

Status of Women committee  Deciding to work on women's leadership in the communities came out of the self-government workshops. We didn't want women's voices to be left behind in the self-government negotiations that the men were doing. When we did the workshops, leadership came out as being a very strong