IVHS Banner for Indigenous Children

Portfolio Item Title 1
Client:
Island View High school
Services:
  • Graphic Design
  • Printing
Overview:

Sharing really is caring and we had the opportunity to volunteer some time and resources for IVHS in Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia. We created a banner for their main entrance to help educate their students and to honour the Indigenous community.

Project: IVHS Banner for Indigenous Children

In May of 2021, the remains of 215 indigenous children were found at the site of a former Residential School near Kamloops, British Columbia. To lend a hand and to educate the next generation, OakTree Designs volunteered our services and donated this banner to Island View High School in Eastern Passage, Nova Scotia where OakTree Designs is Headquartered.

The school was looking for people to donate children’s shoes as a display of how many children were found and the gravity of that discovery. The pattern in this banner includes 215 individual feet to represent each of the children found. Click HERE for the original news article but please note the story contains content that some may find disturbing.

OakTree Designs stands with the indigenous communities in this country and recognize our business and home resides on unceded Mi’kma’ki, the ancestral territory of the Mi’kmaq people.

This project sparked a fire in our hearts and we want to continue this kind of work. If you are a business or community that is looking for help getting your project off the ground and need assistance, we have a community outreach in the works that may be able to help. At the time of writing, we are not quire there yet with the launch of this new program but please don’t hesitate to contact us anyway. We strive to help those that are trying to do good in the world but don’t have the financial means to get the word out.