‘My heart is with the children’: Cross-country walk honours residential school victims

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Jasmine Lavallee is walking across Western Canada in honour of the 215 bodies found in an unmarked grave at the Kamloops Indian Residential School.

The 38 year old was in her emotions when she said that “I tried to ignore it – as ignorant as that sounds – but I knew that 215 would be the number to break my heart. So the more I tried to ignore it, the more I saw it, it broke my heart, I found myself crying when I was like alone. When I had personal time, I was weeping for these children that I didn’t even know. So I knew it affected me hard.”

On her back for the entire walk is a pack filled with…

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