Inkspire

Volunteering is a chance for us to give back to our community, and support the local women in Vancouver. If you would like to volunteer, please visit: www.dewc.ca/volunteer or contact Sara at [email protected]

Inkspire will be set up outside of Vancouver Art Gallery next to Robson Square today from 11am-4pm! Write your message of hope & inspiration on the board.

Team Inkspire couldn't have done it without the help of Downtown Eastside Women's Centre!

Learn more about Downtown Eastside Women's Centre here
https://www.facebook.com/DowntownEastsideWomensCentre

Downtown Eastside Women's Centre Our mission: to provide basic needs and positive change for women and children in the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver.

Team Inkspire is grateful to have won first place in the Social Entrepreneurship Challenge. A very big THANK YOU to everybody who has supported us in the past 5 weeks. Thanks for writing your inspirational messages on our board. Thanks for coming and volunteering for the Connect & Change event. Thanks for spreading the words about our cause. We would not be able to accomplish this without the love & support from each of you.

Although the competition has ended, Team Inkspire will still support the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre to promote and raise awareness. Stay posted for where our board will be headed next!

All is not lost, as long as there is hope. Connect & Change aims to raise awareness on the women’s issues locally in the Downtown Eastside. Featuring guest speakers from the Power of Women Group & representatives from the Downtown Eastside Women's Centre (DEWC), they will share their stories about hope, love, and resistance in the Downtown Eastside.

Special thanks to our guest speakers Harsha Walia, Shurli Chan, Stella August.

Shurli Chan:
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/story/mental-health-and-police-violence/7450

Stella August:
http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/story/residential-schools-and-my-journey-downtown-eastside/7441

Mental Health and Police Violence | Vancouver Media Co-op The heart of the Downtown Eastside (DTES) is home to survivors of the war on terror: the terror of poverty, physical and spiritual abuse, child apprehension, addictions, and residential schools - all of which quietly destroy the human spirit. Yet in spite of its image as the poorest urban postal cod...

Read some inspiring stories of these women from the DTES Power of Women Group: http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/author/dtes-power-women-group

DTES Power of Women Group | Vancouver Media Co-op

For more information about the Connect & Change speakers, the Power of Women Group: http://vancouver.mediacoop.ca/newsrelease/7375

The Downtown Eastside Power of Women Group Presents “In Our Own Voices” Writing Project! | Vancouver The Downtown Eastside Power of Women Group is launching the In Our Own Voices writing project in June 2011. After a six-week period of intensive writing, we are ready to share our stories about hope, struggle, love and resistance in the Downtown Eastside.

Add your INKspiration the the board!

We will be set up in the AQ from 1:30-5pm tomorrow!

The Inkspire board is really starting to take shape!!!

Inkspire set up at the Friends of the Rotunda picnic today. We'd like to thank the SFPIRG, Out on Campus, the Women's Centre, CJSF and ACHSA for being such gracious hosts.

Lots of support from the public in Downtown Vancouver.