The Afro-Caribbean Society of Northern BC (AFCAS-NBC) has completed phase one of its United Way funded project, Black Faces Anti-Racism Project, or BFARP. Society President, Ekpeno Ukut spoke with CFURadio about the project’s initial success and his hopes for phase two.
Launching an office for the Society was a sub-goal within the BFARP program, and one with unexpected benefits. In order to assert racism people in the focus communities of Fort St. James, Smithers, and Prince George were experiencing, a safe space had to be created. The Prince George office has become that and much more with sharing circles, counselling, and celebration events hosted there regularly through the program, ending March 31st, and continuing to present.
Ukut feels that the organization is now fortified in it’s endeavour to address racism in Northern BC with this base of operations established, and hopes to bring the Society’s services to more northern communities in phase two of BFARP.
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