Organizer Alkiie-Babe Froman (standing) leads a Faceless Dolls Workshop at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Campus Oct. 9.
College staff, faculty and students joined together in a student-led an initiative to create faceless dolls on Oct. 9, in honour the memory of missing and murdered aboriginal women and girls in Canada.
Held at the College’s Niagara-on-the-Lake Campus, the Faceless Dolls Workshop was organized by General Business student Alkiie-Babe Froman – a 24-year-old Welland resident who comes from Six Nations Reserve.
Froman plans on sending the dolls created at the workshop to Ottawa where they will be on display at Native Women Association of Canada headquarters.
“Every year, hundreds of indigenous women and girls go missing or are found murdered. The families are stricken by loss of their mothers, sisters, daughters and granddaughters. It is a grievous loss throughout aboriginal communities and that loss should be recognized by all communities nationwide,” said Froman. “By holding a Faceless Dolls Workshop, it creates an easy, tactile way for students, staff and faculty to be aware of this grave issue, so both native and non-native individuals are educated on the matter of missing and murdered indigenous women and girls.”
In addition to the workshop were participants can construct their dolls, information was on display to increase awareness of issues impacting First Nations Women.
