A look back at our social campaign
September 30 saw the launch of the INÉÉI-PSH societal campaign « Agissons contre les violences sexistes faites aux femmes et aux filles en situation de handicap: Sensibiliser pour mieux prévenir! A virtual event on Zoom, produced in collaboration with INDCP , which brought together nearly 40 people from different backgrounds.
We were delighted to welcome so many people in the midst of the pandemic, knowing all the challenges and drastic changes we've all been facing since the start of this pandemic caused by COVID-19.
Many thanks to our generous sponsors: the Foundation of Greater Montreal Grand Montréal and the Equality Fund , as well as Community Foundations of Canada. Communautaires du Canada. A special thank you to our partners and collaborators who have made this project and event a real success and will continue their commitment throughout this campaign and beyond.
Watch our event
Read the opening words
by Rose-Anne Gosselin
“I'd like us to recognize that we're meeting today on an unceded territory where the Kanien'kehá:ka Nation is recognized as the traditional custodian of the lands and waters that comprise it.
Having been a gathering place for many First Nations, today Tiohtiá:ke / Montréal is home to a highly diverse population, bringing together peoples from many communities.
It is in respect of all these links built in the past, in the present and which will be built in the future that we welcome each other in a relationship of friendship and mutual respect”.
By Amanda Shawayahamish
«I would like us to acknowledge that we are meeting today in unceded territory where the Kanien’kehá: ka Nation is recognized as the traditional custodian of the lands and waters that comprise it.
Having been a gathering place for many First Nations, Tiohtiá:ke / Montreal is today the home of a very diverse population, bringing together people from many communities.
by Hélène Lépine (President of the INÉÉI-PSH Board of Directors)
“Hello to you all,
Thank you Amanda, Rose-Anne and Camille for your warm welcome.
As Chair of the INEÉÉI-PSH Board of Directors, it is my pleasure to welcome you to this promising event organized in collaboration with INDCP and our many other partners.
The virtual event in which you are taking part, “Building Solidarities for Safe, Equal and Inclusive Communities”, aims to give a voice and, above all, launch a call to action through a societal campaign to share awareness-raising proposals to better prevent and, above all, eliminate all forms of violence against women and girls, and thus ensure safety, equality and inclusion for all.
The societal campaign we are launching today, “Building Solidarities for Safe, Equal and Inclusive Communities”, is intended to be courageous
and hopeful for the future. Hope for permanent change, and we thank you
for supporting it through your support it through your virtual but no less active participation.
We are delighted to be able to count on our partners and donors who have actively contributed to making this beautiful project possible.
Our thanks to
- To the Foundation of Greater Montreal (FGM),
- Community Foundations of Canada via the federal government's Equality Fund,
- Andrés Fontecilla (QS), Member of Parliament for Laurier-Dorion
- Our collaborating organizations:
SPECTRUM PRODUCTION, FLUX Mtl. - The First Nations Human Resources Development Commission
of Quebec (FNHRDCQ) - Def Phys without limits
- La Coalition des parents d’enfants à besoins particuliers du
Québec (CPEBPQ) - La gang à RAMBROU
- The International Network on the Disability Creation Process (INDCP)
And I invite Mr. Jean-Pierre Robin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of INDCP, to join me in welcoming you.
To you Mr. Robin.”
Remerciements
On behalf of Mr. Jean-Pierre Robin, Chairman of the INDCP Board of Directors, and on my own behalf, I would like to thank and congratulate:
- The panelists
- The Advisory Committee
- The artists
- The organizers who worked in the dark and in the light
- And once again, thanks to the donors and partner organizations (which I
named at the outset at the very beginning) who made this year's event possible. who helped make this beautiful project possible
Thanks to all of you for this wonderful event that brought people together to speak out.
But I'd especially like to thank Selma Kouidri, CEO of INÉÉI-PSH, for her courage and determination. Selma, you hold high the torch of defending the rights of people with different abilities. Your deep conviction that together we can act, that together we can build solidarity, is creating a new force in the social sphere, and this call to action event will leave its mark, I'm more than certain.
Thank you Selma.
I would also like to thank all the participants who have agreed to be here with us today. You are the first architects of this new construction to ensure safe, egalitarian and inclusive communities. And for that, we thank you. To all of you, thank you for your solidarity. And if you'd like to make this solidarity a reality, I invite you to take the first step by becoming a member of INÉI_PSH and helping us fulfill our commitment to “Building solidarities that ensure safe, egalitarian and inclusive communities”.
Visit our website and sign up.
We hope you will register in large numbers.
Thank you for attending.”
by Jean-Pierre Robin (Chairman of the Board, INDCP)
“Hello everyone,
The International Network on the Disability Creation Process, INDCP,
is very proud to support INEI - PSH for the launch of its societal campaign
“Let's take action against gender-based violence: raise awareness to better
prevention!”
Although the Institute is still very young, it is already an active and recognized campaigner
in the social sphere, particularly on social networks, where it is showing very promising leadership. I therefore have a strong feeling that he will make his mark on the history of the movement to assert the rights of differently-abled people.
different abilities, those we've become accustomed to calling people with disabilities, as if that were the only way to represent them. This time, taking advantage of the forum set up by INÉÉI - PSH, these people will be in a much better position to participate in society
...!
The awareness campaign launched today is not lacking in audacity
daring, both in its choice of themes that are still too little talked about, and in the
The INÉÉI - PSH has the courage to bring these issues into the public arena, and to encourage its partners to speak out.
At the forefront of the panel of experts will be those who are experts in their own lives
who are experts in their own lives and have so much to share with us.
Together, let's take the time to listen carefully to what they have to say;
I'm sure you'll want to support the movement and engage in
dialogue
I'm sure you'll want to support the movement and engage in dialogue to find inclusive and sustainable solutions.
I now invite Mrs. Adriana ESLAVA of the Network for Peace and Social
Harmonie Sociale, to conclude this welcome address.”
l’Harmonie Sociale, à conclure ce mot de bienvenue.»