Where We Are Now

A wholehearted thank you to all our supporters and partners for your patience and help as REED was paused from mid-2020 through 2024. We are so grateful to everyone who stayed connected with us. 

REED’s volunteer Transitional Board is pleased to announce REED’s strategic pivot in focus: To support incarcerated & recently released Indigenous women in their Creator-given cultural and spiritual identity & to advocate for justice in the prison system with and for them. 

Our new name which embodies our renewed mission is Sisters Walking Together.  Sisters’ mission echoes REED’s two-pronged work of transformational relationships & justice advocacy. 

As REED stood with and for sexually exploited women & challenged the demand for paid access to their bodies, SISTERS will build relational community and also address unjust systems with and for incarcerated Indigenous women, many of whom have also been sexually exploited.

How We Got Here

During the past 2 years a group of Indigenous & Settler women began to pray, weep and dream together about a possible new work of transformational relationships and justice advocacy with incarcerated Indigenous women.  To build trust and become a team they:

• Shared meals
• Listened well to each other through cultural differences & honestly addressed conflicts
• Learned from wise, experienced Indigenous and other local leaders about incarceration, trauma, and the Canadian systems that work together to funnel Indigenous women into prison 

Where We’re Going

Sisters Walking Together is committed to walking alongside incarcerated and  recently-released incarcerated women in the Vancouver area 

• As they re-enter their communities
• 1-1 and in monthly gatherings
• Focusing on Indigenous perspectives
• Led and walking in the way of matriarchs
• Engaging local community groups & other citizens in justice advocacy 

We look forward to sharing more about our work with formerly incarcerated Indigenous women in the coming weeks and months. For now, please click on the button below to read more about our discernment process and more about Sisters Walking Together. 

If you have any questions, please reach out to our new email at sisterswalkingtogether@gmail.com.