The cerulean and indigo fabric on the twin bed provides the only pop of colour in a mostly grey and white room. Tacked on top is a letter with the words “made especially for you.”
Each woman who stays at īkwēskīcik iskwēwak, a transitional home in Saskatoon for women leaving jail, gets a quilt like this.
“It just gives them a sense that ‘somebody cares for me,'” said Crystal LaPlante, who oversees justice programs for the Saskatoon Tribal Council. “For the ones that have been abused, the ones told they’re nothing — this says, ‘You are loved.'”
Grassroots resources for Indigenous offenders, like īkwēskīcik iskwēwak, are
