The story of Orange Shirt Day - an important story that we're proud to be able to share 🧡 Thank you to Phyllis Webstad & chief of Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Nation Rosanne Casimir for continuing to teach us about #TruthandReconciliation 🇨🇦 #ThisIsOurPride #EveryChildMatters | BC Lions

Phyllis Webstad's personal story was the impetus behind #OrangeShirtDay. In a 2019 interview with MTS, she said honouring residential school survivors is "a little bit of justice in our lifetime for what happened to us. We'll never be fully healed, but it helps us to feel better about being in this world." Let's honour the memory of the 215 Indigenous children who never came home from the former #kamloopsresidentialschool #EveryChildMatters #IndigenousLivesMatter | The Manitoba Teachers' Society

🧡 Orange Shirt Day – Every Child Matters September 30th is Orange Shirt Day, inspired by the story of Phyllis Webstad, whose new orange shirt was taken away on her first day at a residential school—a symbol of the erasure of culture and childhood for thousands of Indigenous children. a century, 150,000 Indigenous children were forced into Canada’s residential school system. Many never returned. In 2021, the remains of 215 children were uncovered at a former school site, and since then, more tha