'I felt unsafe': Indigenous safe-ride service for women can't keep up with need | CBC News
14.7.18
Kelly Geraldine Malone · The Canadian Press // 'I felt unsafe': Indigenous safe-ride service for women can't keep up with need | CBC News: Ikwe co-director Christine Brouzes was also an early volunteer after facilitating a roundtable for the national inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. Brouzes left that meeting feeling helpless.
"I heard about Ikwe from a friend and a light bulb went off. I thought this is what I can do," Brouzes said. "I felt that if I could help keep one woman safe by providing a safe transportation ride for her, then that would be my tiny pebble in the river to help this situation."
Ikwe — which means woman in the Anishinaabemowin language — has now provided more than 46,000 rides. The Facebook-based group has more than 15,600 members and 43 drivers.
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