Denied help: Little Warriors not getting funding for Be Brave Ranch
“I made a commitment to the kids in Canada, in Alberta, in Edmonton, that I’d build this for them and with or without the government, we will continue to raise that money and build that facility.”
Those were the words from Glori Meldrum, founder and chair of Little Warriors, after funding a treatment centre for child victims of sexual abuse was denied. Little Warriors requested $650,000 in funding for its Be Brave Ranch. As the Little Warriors website points out, there are centres for rapists and pedophiles to be “rehabilitated” but there is nothing for those they victimize.
The mission of the centre is to provide long-term care and treatment to victims of sexual abuse, but it also focusses on parents of these kids, helping them get over their grief or anger over what has happened to their child. It also provides help to those in relationships with victims to help them better understand what victims go through. Meldrum is right in saying this is so badly needed in Canada.
Little Warriors hopes to help about 40 kids every month, which adds up to about 480 more victims directed back on the road to healing and peace. Tell me, what in the world can be more important than helping our children?
Little Warriors needs to raise $3.4 million in order to build the centre. So far, they have raised $1.4 million since, but there is a long ways to go and a helping hand from the provincial government would send a strong message to those who know the torture and darkness of sexual abuse. But to me, right now, it is saying other things are more important.
As a survivor, I am actually offended that my provincial government has essentially denied me a service I view as essential. And yet pedophiles still get “treatment.” Why are we still treating these sickos like they are the victims? Why are the REAL victims still being thrown under society’s bus and forgotten about? It is absolutely outrageous.
Meldrum said the centre would be built one way or another. Personally, I would like to help, though I am thinking of a way how to do a fundraiser of some sort for Little Warriors.
However, donations can be made through the Little Warriors website: http://littlewarriors.ca/you-can-help/be-brave-ranch/
Governments everywhere need to get their priorities straight. Since when did anything else come before the well-being of children? It is wrong to think anything else is more important, especially when children have suffered at the hands of such monsters that still get “help.”
As a friend said to me today about this: “It is a sad day to be an Albertan.”
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