A new scholarship program is available for First Nations women in northwestern Ontario seeking a post-secondary education.
The Ted Nolan Foundation is contributing $125,000 to the Indigenous Institutes Consortium to support a fund named after the former NHL’ers mother Rose.
Ted Nolan and his son Brandon were at the Seven Generations Education Institute’s campus in Fort Frances to make the presentation this week.
Nolan says “I very strongly believe that the women’s role makes a stronger home, makes a stronger community, community makes a stronger nation so that’s what we do it.”
Consortium Chair Murray Waboose welcomes the scholarship.
“There is a heavy presence of enrollment of our female First Nations students and it’s just growing and growing. So this contribution is very timely.”
The Consortium represents eight of nine Indigenous post-secondary institutions across the province.
Waboose says the scholarship will be available to any Indigenous woman attending any one of the facilities represented.
