LINK: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.6441534
'Our pandemic in Canada': Grandmothers step up to raise children orphaned by premature deaths
Faye Robinson stepped up to help raise 14 grandchildren in her Saskatoon
home after her adult children struggled with addictions. Decades of
intergenerational trauma and compounding drug use are seeing her, along
with many other Indigenous grandparents, step in to care for their
grandkids.
READ: https://www.cbc.ca/lite/story/1.7253164
Joan Okemow has been raising three grandchildren and one
great-grandchild, while working at a Saskatoon friendship centre. She
describes the work of grandmothers in Saskatchewan as similar to that of
grandmothers in South Africa, with drugs, as opposed to HIV/AIDS,
orphaning children here in this province.
Posts
