ICC Chair Murray Waboose (left) with Ted Nolan and Brandon Nolan - supplied photo
Some added help for Indigenous woman pursuing post-secondary education.
The Ted Nolan Foundation is providing the Indigenous Institutes Consortium with $125-thousand for a scholarship named after the former NHL player and coach’s mother Rose.
The presentation was made at Seven Generations Education Institute’s Fort Frances campus when the Consortium was holding meetings.
Nolan says it allows Indigenous women to get the opportunities they rightly deserve.
“I very strongly believe that the women’s role makes a stronger home, makes a stronger community, community makes stronger nation so that’s what we do,” says Nolan.
The Consortium represents eight of nine Indigenous post-secondary institutions across the province.
Chair Murray Waboose says the scholarship will be available to any Indigenous woman attending any one of the facilities represented. He adds the donation from the Nolan Foundation comes at a time when they’re seeing more woman attending classes.
There is a heavy presence of enrollment of our female First Nations students and it’s just growing so this contribution is very timely,” says Waboose.
The Ted Nolan Foundation has also created scholarship programs at Sault College, First Nations University of Canada in Regina and Cape Breton University with more donations expected in the future.
