Indigenous Services Minister Jane Philpott announced almost $350,000 in funding Tuesday to expand the program at Ndinawe Youth Resource Centre in Winnipeg. WINNIPEG—A 24-hour safe space for youth is being dedicated to the memory of a 15-year-old Manitoba Indigenous girl whose body was found in the Red River. “It was Tina’s dream to work with children and that’s why we decided a safe haven would be good in her honour,” Favel said. Tina was from the Sagkeeng First Nation, but left her home in the summer of 2014 to reconnect with her birth mother in Winnipeg. The teen soon became sexually exploited and repeatedly ran away from hotels where social workers had placed her, as well as from the Ndinawe youth shelter, which is run by the same organization as the resource centre.

Source: thestar March 27, 2018 18:33 UTC