Congratulations to the staff at the AKI Centre, Alexis Nazeravich, Ben Linnick & Alex Loeppky, the Board of Trustees & the Superintendent’s Team for their work in supporting the AKI Centre since it opened in 2019.​

From Indspire:

We’re thrilled to announce that the Ozhaawashkwaa Animikii-Bineshi Aki Onji Kinimaagae' Inun (Aki Centre) is the 2024 recipient of the Guiding the Journey: Indigenous Education Award for an Organization! 🏆

The Aki Centre was established in 2017 and centres Indigenous Education through land-based education in Winnipeg, MB.

Rooted in Indigenous ways of knowing and being, the Centre fosters reconciliation by braiding land-based education, ecological restoration, and community stewardship together for the Seven Oaks School Division learners (K-12 and mature students), educators and staff, and the extended community.

The centre resides on 50 acres of land that was once a degraded farm. Aki Centre staff restored the land and nurtured it by bringing it back to its origins, a grassland, which has become home again for wildlife and includes gardens with traditional food and medicines, walking trails, a sweat lodge, tipi, and storytelling and interpretive signage led by Indigenous voices.

Each day, students visit the Centre to engage in holistic, land-based education where the land is their teacher. This past year, Aki Centre reached a milestone and had 5,000 students and educators visit the site.

Congratulations to all of the staff and stakeholders at the Aki Centre! 🎉

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