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Our grantees identifying as Indigenous were more likely to talk about overcoming challenges related to
engaging a community for the purpose of passing on cultural and community knowledge. For example,
"
I would make sure that the traditional teachings were
broken up into sessions so more youth would be engaged.
"
Participants also often expressed having to face and overcome challenges which forced them
to think beyond their project. For instance, the grantee in the following quote recognized
societal or systemic reasons that would make their community feel unsafe when participating
in a project. This grantee as a result, needed to examine and address these broader
challenges in order to ensure that their project could impact their participants.
"
I...found out [that] feeling safe is key towards making any impact.
"
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THEME 2: OVERCOMING CHALLENGES
