b'INDUSTRY PROMOTION & DEVELOPMENTCentre is a direct response to thelabourers, apprentices, carpentersall while providing grace, empathy and original calls to action. and safety personnel, who providedcompassion to a group of women who A FOUNDATION OF MENTORSHIP training on various tools, equipment andwere not used to receiving thisThe village was designed by Prairiecarpentry-related tasks. Additional safetyfrom men.Architects and built by Parkwesttraining was also provided to build uponBOOTS ON THE GROUNDProjects Ltd. Parkwest worked inwhat the women had learned in theirJenny-Lee, who is now a general close collaboration with Mother EarthClan Mothers carpentry program.labourer with MEC, was a participant in Construction (MEC), a venture of ClanImportantly, says Urban, Parkwestthe mentorship program. She joined the Mothers Earth Enterprises, which is itselfProjects team was committed toinitiative after graduating from the Clan a subsidiary of Clan Mothers Healingsupporting the mentees throughoutMothers carpentry program and recalls Village and Knowledge Centre. It wastheir carpentry mentorship and beyond.learning a great deal from the team at through this partnership that ParkwestThis meant working with mentees toParkwest. I learned so many different Projects established a communityschedule their involvement around theirskills, like tool use, building and stripping mentorship initiative with Clan Motherslife commitments and off-site training,concrete forms, installing air barriers, that gave an eight-woman cohort the opportunity to go hands on withthe build.When our team at Parkwest gathered to discuss the project, we knew Clan Mothers had a program to train women, Two-Spirit and transgender people inHigh Voltage Energy the carpentry trade, says Teri Urban,Mechanical Parkwests director of people, safetyElectrical and administration. We decided we hadEngineering more to offer Clan Mothers beyond ourOur goal is to bring CREATIVITY and EXPERTISEforsustainabledesign ability to build their healing village; weand energy innovation. could also help them build their socialTHANK YOU to our employees and enterprise, Mother Earth Construction,clients for MCWs continued success. and help build the skills of theirMCW.com carpentry cohorts too.Through this mentorship program, she continues, Parkwest was able to offer more than constructing the village: We were offering our expertise asCOMMERCIAL|INDUSTRIALjourneypeople to build the carpentryDemolition & Concrete Cuttingskills of the MEC crew and our business expertise in commercial construction to help them to build their socialenterprise too. www.204demolition.caEach of the programs mentees was given the opportunity to be exposed to the villages full construction cycle, from ground clearing to building turnover.YOUR TRUSTED PARTNERS FOR DEMOLITION & CONCRETE CUTTING SERVICES IN MANITOBAThey worked alongside Parkwest Issue 2 | Summer Edition | 2025 BUILD MANITOBA 41'