September 30th, 2025
Orange Shirt Day
Every Child Matters!
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation
This shirt holds a powerful promise. For every one you purchase, you send a direct gift of $10 to a child on their journey of healing. It’s a simple act of kindness that wraps them in support and whispers a message they need to hear:
YOU MATTER
We donate directly to Orange Shirt Society ($10 on every purchase)
Price: $19.99 | We Donate: $10.00 | Your Impact: Immeasurable
20+ Years of Commitment
500,000 Donated in 5 Years
Price: $19.99
We Donate: $10.00
Your Impact: Immeasurable
This isn’t just another purchase. It’s a direct investment in a child’s future. Over 50% of your contribution—a full $10 from every shirt—goes directly to our partners societies.
Step 1: You Choose Your Shirt. You purchase this high-quality, ethically-made orange shirt to show your solidarity.
Step 2: We make the donation. We immediately allocate $10 from your purchase to fund that support Indigenous youth.
Step 3: A Child’s Future is Nurtured. Your donation helps provide vital resources: access to cultural education, mental health support, and programs that empower the next generation.
In 1973, a six-year-old girl named Phyllis Webstar arrived at a residential school, proud to be wearing a new orange shirt from her grandmother. It was immediately taken from her, never to be seen again. That single act of stripping a child of something personal became a symbol for everything that was stolen: culture, identity, family, and childhood itself.
Today, we wear orange not just to remember the heartbreaking history of the residential school system, but to stand up and declare, unequivocally, that Every Child Matters. We wear it to turn a symbol of loss into a beacon of hope and healing.
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Orange Shirt Society and its partner organizations focus on large-scale, systemic change rather than direct, one-on-one services. Think of them less like a local community center that counts the specific kids in its programs, and more like a national foundation that works to change the entire system for all Indigenous children. Here’s a breakdown of how they help and where the impact is felt
Education and Curriculum Development
- Developing age-appropriate lesson plans, videos, and guides for teachers.
- Making these resources available for free to thousands of educators.
- While they don't count each student, a single teacher using their curriculum can educate hundreds of children over a few years. This means hundreds of thousands of students across the country are reached annually, fostering a generation that is more aware and empathetic.
National Awareness and Advocacy
- Creating a powerful, unifying slogan and symbol that allows millions of Canadians to show solidarity.
- Orange Shirt Society was a key driver in the federal government's decision to establish the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation on September 30th.
- It pressures governments and institutions to change policies and helps combat the racism and ignorance that stems from a lack of education about this history.
Grants to Community-Level Programs
- Murals, mosaics, and memorials that allow communities to tell their own stories and heal.
- Funding for local groups to run their own awareness events, workshops, and cultural camps.
- This model empowers communities to create programs that fit their specific needs, reaching thousands of children in culturally relevant ways that a national body couldn't.
Support for Survivors and Historical Preservation
- Preserving the stories of thousands of survivors so their truths are never lost.
- Continuing the vital work of identifying the children who never returned home from the schools.
- This work doesn't help a child today in a material sense, but it provides the essential foundation of truth upon which all reconciliation must be built, ensuring future generations of children grow up knowing their history.