#irsss

IRSSS does wonderful work, extending their help not only to Indigenous communities impacted by residential schools, but also to families of Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls as well as Indigenous youth who may be struggling with the criminal justice system.

Regardless if you're a Swift fan or not though, if you're in the Vancouver area consider checking out the upcoming IRSSS Anniversary Gala on November 21, 2024:

https://www.irsss.ca/gala

The Indian Residential School Survivors' Society

and

Standing Together.

They are, respectively, a non-profit organization based out of Vancouver BC dedicated to helping residential school survivors, missing/murdered indigenous women, and indigenous youth in the criminal justice system (IRSSS), and a movement dedicated to cohabitation and coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians, free of occupation and oppression and free of those who don't have the people's best interests in mind (ST).

The 2022 Solamancy Zine proceeds will be donated to charity. We’ve had our creators help decide which charity we would donate to. We’re finally ready to reveal the charity of our choice!

When making the decision, our team considered that aspects of the Elven culture in Thedas are inspired by indigenous North American cultures. For that reason, it was important our charity of choice serve them. 

We will be donating all proceeds to: 

The Indian Residential School Survivor Society 

The Indian Residential School Survivor Society (IRSSS) is a provincial organization with a twenty-year history of providing services to Indian Residential School Survivors.

The Indian Residential School Survivors Society began in 1994 as a working committee of the First Nations Summit. They were known as the Residential School Project, housed out of and as a part of the BC First Nations Summit. Their work was primarily to assist Survivors with the litigation process pertaining to Residential School abuses. In more recent years their work has expanded to include assisting the descendants of Survivors and implementing Community education measures (Indigenous & Non-Indigenous).