Write to Read BC

Tag: childcare

  • Aboriginal Mother Centre

    About the organisation

    Aboriginal Mother Centre offers housing in Vancouver, BC, for mothers and their young children, who are at risk of homelessness or child welfare intervention. The program offers suites for mothers and children under the age of nine.

    The program focuses on mothers giving back to their community, for example by helping with the Elders program by serving food, cleaning up tables, distributing food to take home, and engaging with Elders.

    Aboriginal Mother Centre also offers family-wellness programs for mothers to enhance their skills and abilities as parents, and help them on their life journeys. Each week, the centre also offers parenting workshops, housing- and resources workshops, life-skills workshops and self-care workshops.

    About the library

    Write to Read BC placed a library in the Aboriginal Mothers Centre. The library’s sponsors included the Rotary Club of Whistler Millennium.

  • Nlaka’pamux Nation, Kumsheen, or Lytton

    The Nlaka’pamux Nation has many bands, whose traditional territory includes parts of the Thomson River, Fraser Canyon in BC and south into the North Cascades region of the USA. The Nation is constructing a multipurpose community centre in Kumsheen, or Lytton.

    The centre will include spaces for childcare, youth programming, cultural gatherings and celebrations, and for knowledge exchange and language revitalization. This project will also include a commercial teaching kitchen, a community café, and an Elders lounge. The building is designed with a strong focus on sustainability, cultural preservation, and climate resilience.

    About the library

    In 2027, Write to Read BC plans to install a reading room in partnership with the Nlaka’pamux Nation.

  • Five libraries ready to install

    Over the next few months, we’ll be installing furniture and books at five locations, ranging from Vancouver to BC’s interior. Most of these libraries are linked to a community school or preschool, including in Squamish Nation, Tsideldel First Nation, Williams Lake First nation, and Aboriginal Mothers Care Centre.

    • Gitsegukla, in the Skeena region of west central BC, on the southeast side of the Skeena River adjacent to the Kitseguecla River mouth, near New Hazleton, BC.
    • Learning Centre at Tsideldel First Nation, located in the Chilcotin region of BC’s western central interior.
    • Littlest People Elementary School, a Homulchesan school in the Squamish Nation, next to the mouth of the Capilano River, in Greater Vancouver.
    • Aboriginal Mothers Care Centre in Vancouver’s downtown eastside neighbourhood. It’s a place where Aboriginal mothers, babies, and children can come to be together as a family.
    • Little Chiefs Elementary School library in Williams Lake First Nation, which is located in the Cariboo region of BC’s central interior, at Williams Lake.

  • Quatsino preschool plans library

    This small, BC community is in the process of designing and building a new pre-school with the help of Scott Kemp, who is also our Write to Read BC architect.

    The community is adding to the building design a portion that will serve as a community library. This project is a partnership with Write to Read BC.

    Quatsino is located northwest of Port Hardy, on the BC coast.