A place of peace’: Funds will help build park to honour missing and murdered Indigenous women in Edmonton – CTV Edmonton
October 20, 2020
EDMONTON — The desire to keep the focus on murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls after the national inquiry delivered its 231 Calls to Justice last year pushed Shawna Serniak to change the focus of the endowment fund she had established with the Edmonton Community Foundation (ECF).
Serniak created the Every Woman Empowerment Endowment fund in 2017, administered by ECF. Initially the fund was to be used to support women with addictions, single mothers and Indigenous women.
However, anger about quickly-forgotten murdered and missing Indigenous women and girls, combined with an activist friend and another friend whose daughter was murdered in the 1990s, turned Serniak’s focus in another direction.
