Community Volunteers

Submitted By

Bruce Green, Adult Educator, Katl’odeeche (Hay River Reserve)

Best Practices Supported

• Community
• Outreach

How It Works

The learners in the Katl’odeeche (Hay River Reserve) program are encouraged to play an active role in community events. Some of the activities they are involved in include:

• Helping set up at community feasts
• Attending planning meetings for the Kamba Carnival, and organizing and running some of the events
• Visiting the Chief Sunrise Education Centre (the local school) once a week to read stories to the children, either one-on-one or in small groups.

A recent innovation involves elders’ visits. In groups of two or three, learners first prepare a small gift for each elder—tea, sugar, milk, etc.—then go to visit the elder in his/her home.