SHINE Club helps racialized kids feel at home
Global News
SHINE Clubs was created with BIPOC kids in mind as it seeks to give them a safe space to be themselves, explore their culture, and to learn.
SHINE Club is a safe space for children of colour at school.
Every week, students meet up at lunch. They eat and have discussions about topics like skin colour, culture and more before wrapping up with some fun.
“The whole thing is about empowerment, it’s about hope,” said V. Ophelia Rigault, who conceived the idea for SHINE Club.
Rigault said the idea that eventually became SHINE Club came to her after an incident when her niece, Juliana, was discriminated against because of the colour of her skin.
“I just started to work with her, and then I thought, there are other kids who might be experiencing this,” she said.
Thus, SHINE Club was born.
Just one year into it the program is already in multiple schools in Belleville, Trenton and Kingston.
Rigault said it’s good to have fun but the impact of what they’re doing is much deeper.
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