A space for healing, celebration and tranquillity.
Toronto has the largest urban Indigenous population in Ontario. In 2020, the city’s Women’s College Hospital opened its Centre for Wise Practices in Indigenous Health to support a wellness system that acknowledges and respects Indigenous people, providing meaningful, culturally safe care, which is free of racism and discrimination.
Following a request from the Centre, BBGI funded £4,000 through the Portfolio Company, and facilitated the construction of a rooftop Medicine Wheel Garden. In Native American culture, the Medicine Wheel is a symbol of the circle of life. The Garden is a place to harvest native, medicinal plants and to be enjoyed by the Indigenous community and to be enjoyed by the Indigenous community.
When First Nations, Inuit or Métis patients come to Women’s College Hospital for testing, treatments or procedures, we will have a viable means to offer them comforts for preparation, prayer, purification and spiritual healing by maintaining our own crop of medicinal instruments at the Medicine Wheel Garden.
Christine Monague
Indigenous Peer Support and Relations Advocate
