DTI La Loche ABE Student Awarded This Year’s Cameco Literacy Learner Award – GDI

Jul 12, 2024

The following article was originally published in the GDI Communicator Vol. 18 Issue 5, May 2024. The Communicator is a monthly internal newsletter intended to celebrate the achievements of the management and staff of the Gabriel Dumont Institute. You can find the archive of previous issues in the Virtual Museum of Métis History and Culture.

Dumont Technical Institute (DTI) La Loche Level 2 learner, Allen Claude Janvier was awarded the prestigious 2024 Cameco Literacy Learner Award and Bursary at the Saskatchewan Literacy Network’s 2024 Saskatchewan Literacy Awards of Merit held at Government House in Regina on May 14th. Attendees were welcomed by His Honour, the Honourable Russ Mirasty, Lieutenant Governor of Saskatchewan, and Donna Woloshyn, Board of Director, Saskatchewan Literacy Network, who presented the awards.

Allen is a 67-year-young single parent with four children. Losing his spouse in September 1997, Allen helped raise his children by working in the mines. After he was laid off, Allen stayed home with his grandchildren to help care for them. Once all his grandchildren entered school, Allen enrolled at DTI in La Loche to learn to read and write.