The Ballantyne Project

An Indigenous youth-led organization that focuses on awareness through #WeSeeYou & providing support and opportunities to youth in remote First Nations. 🇨🇦

[The Ballantyne Project @ballantyneproj]

Thank you to everyone who has participated in our growing We See You campaign. Our goal is to bring awareness to Canadians about life in remote First Nations so that individuals living there know that WE SEE THEM! If you would like to participate send us a photo :)! #WeSeeYou

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We can't express how excited and grateful we are for all of these amazing new outreach team members who have just recently joined us! Meet Saige Arcand. We are so excited to work with you! 🙌

Our outreach team will be helping us spread awareness about #WeSeeYou Campaign!

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We are very excited to announce that we have our fourth outreach team member!

We can't thank all of our amazing team members who have just recently joined us. Our outreach team will be helping us spread awareness about #WeSeeYou Campaign and our #WeSeeYou Day on January 11 2021.

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Today we are very excited to share with our followers that we our third team member who has joined our growing project and campaign. Meet Delia Beadle !

Our outreach team will be helping us spread awareness about #WeSeeYou Campaign and our #WeSeeYou Day on January 11 2021.

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Sending out a BIG shoutout and thank you to everyone who has supported us throughout our endeavors and to those who contributed to our gofundme that Delia Beadle and Asha Frost set up for us and shared with their network of people to spread the word. This means everything to us!!

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We are sending out a MASSIVE thank you to Delia Beadle and Asha Frost for their utmost support and amazing work of raising over $3,000 for our Project for video and media production that will be used for creating an educational video series and all media content. So thankful!! 🙏

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We would like to introduce everyone to Jan Prpich, our second newest member of our Ballantyne Project Outreach Team!

Our outreach team will be helping us spread awareness about #WeSeeYou Campaign and our #WeSeeYou Day on January 11 2021. Excited to have you a part of the team :)

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We have big news... We have our very first member of the Ballantyne Project Outreach Team!! 😄 🙌

Our Outreach Team will be helping us spread awareness about our #WeSeeYou campaign and our #WeSeeYou Day on January 11 2021. We couldn't be more excited! Read about Natasha below.

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Dwight will be speaking with Natasha from Parkgate Society and the youth that she works with to discuss and open the conversation about the challenges that individuals face while living in remote First Nation communities and how we are bringing awareness through #WeSeeYou

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Lately we have seen the racism in our police system, judicial system and medical system.

What about our education system? Spread the word. #WeSeeYou

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Throwback to before this worldwide pandemic speaking at schools. #WeSeeYou

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Happy National Indigenous Peoples Day to everyone out there. Late post but it is also National Indigenous Peoples History Month so keep posted on our feed and get involved! #NationalIndigenousPeoplesDay #WeSeeYou

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We are putting together a video about how residential schools affects Indigenous youth still today.

If you are a youth or young adult who would like to share your experience with us and help us with the creation of the video, tell us your story. It can even be a few sentences!

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Spread the word. #WeSeeYou

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https://t.co/nGlAG22Jga

Here is a quick 3 minute video for anyone interested in seeing what the team has accomplished in our first year as The Ballantyne Project! #WeSeeYou

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@cmcwhinney @SD22Vernon @RobynLadner You are welcome! It was a pleasure to share my knowledge with you guys. It was an amazing experience to share my story.

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You are welcome! It was a pleasure to share my knowledge with you guys. It was an amazing experience to share my story.

[Corinne McWhinney @cmcwhinney]

136 @SD22Vernon teachers and EA’s engaging in a webinar with Dwight Ballantyne sharing his story of traditions, cultural activities and challenges he faced living in a remote First Nation. Thank you Dwight. #inspiring #honest #theballantyneproject #sd22learns @RobynLadner

[Corinne McWhinney @cmcwhinney]

136 @SD22Vernon teachers and EA’s engaging in a webinar with Dwight Ballantyne sharing his story of traditions, cultural activities and challenges he faced living in a remote First Nation. Thank you Dwight. #inspiring #honest #theballantyneproject #sd22learns @RobynLadner

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Today Dwight has been given the opportunity to be one of the Keynote speakers alongside well known Indigenous authors and speakers with the Vernon School District! #WeSeeYou

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If you live on reserve and want to participate in our challenge check out our Facebook page to see what this is! #WeSeeYou

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@donna_robins @LangleySchools @ACSS_Totems Thank you very much Donna! I appreciate your support, as soon as things calm down, we the Ballantyne team will continue on our work :) - Dwight