It has taken some time to find the voice of my business, but the last few months has really solidified my vision moving forward. I am about to embark on a new career path and am studying to become an early childhood educator. My new job will be working at a beautiful play school here in Fernie where risky play and outside time is the basis of modern learning.
These are practices that resonate with how I like to raise and educate my son. I will be taking this position and learning opportunity very seriously and would love to eventually have a facility that offers this exact kind of early education.
With my interest firmly in risky outdoor play and forest school, I wanted to find a charitable organization that supported this. With some research and consideration I found the Child and Nature Alliance of Canada. I am extremely excited to say that with every purchase from Little Wilder Kids, one dollar will be donated to this initiative!
Some more information about what work this organization does is written in their own words below:
’We foster meaningful connections with the outdoors for children and youth. All children and youth should have the opportunity to play and learn in forests, parks, meadows and mud puddles. We work to connect children and youth with nature through policy, research, and practice.
Relationship with the Land is at the heart of what we do, and this Land is Indigenous Land.
But the origins of the Child and Nature Alliance of Canada and Forest School Canada are rooted in white settler thinking and approaches. We are an organization currently led by white settlers, headquartered on the unceded traditional territory of the Algonquin Anishinaabe. We have imposed a settler colonial way of being with the Land because our programs were not co-created with Indigenous people. This approach means we perpetuate and benefit from colonization in the ways that we operate, and this causes harm.
We want to repair our relationships with the Indigenous communities and people we have harmed, and, if they are willing, work towards co-creating trusting, safe, and reciprocal relationships with them. From that place of reciprocity, we hope to recreate the Forest and Nature School Practitioners Course, and co-create all future programming with Indigenous partners across Canada. In doing that, we hope that Indigenous and Western worldviews will have equitable voice and space in our programs, so that they are safe, meaningful, and culturally relevant for all participants.’
Read more about them here:
https://childnature.ca
As always thank you for your continued support and I hope you see the added value in this next step to creating our brand values and ethos.
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