Forest and the Femme is an outdoor recreation program for highly marginalized women living in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside community. We provide access to nature for the city’s most vulnerable and isolated women. Our goal is to facilitate a sense of freedom, empowerment and self worth through contact with nature, skill building and social engagement.
We believe that nature has the power to heal and transform, creating strengths that will carry throughout all aspects of our lives. We prioritize women with multiple, intersecting vulnerabilities including FASD, involvement in the survival sex trade, addictions, racial oppression, mental health, physical health and mobility barriers.