Measured Outcomes
Youth in the 2025 cohort completed pre- and post-program self-assessments. Reported understanding and engagement increased across every measure tracked, including:
- Understanding of reconciliation from an Islamic paradigm: 3.36 → 4.25 (out of 5)
- Ability to name three Indigenous nations or communities: 3.45 → 4.67 (out of 5)
- Openness to challenging one’s own assumptions and biases: 4.18 → 4.75 (out of 5)
- Understanding of the Truth & Reconciliation concept: 4.09 → 4.58 (out of 5)
Youth rated the overall 2025 program experience an average of 4.25 out of 5.
Growth: 25 → Up to 50 Youth
MIC has run three cohorts to date (2021, 2022, and 2025), each admitting around 25 youth from a competitive applicant pool. The program’s 2026-2029 plan proposes scaling to two simultaneous cohorts – up to 50 youth a year, and an estimated 150 youth over three years – pending funding.
Testimonials
Reconciliation is not something we inherit – it is something we build, step by step, relationship by relationship. Our future as Muslims in Canada is inseparable from our relationship with Indigenous peoples.
Muneeb Nasir
Interfaith advocate, MIC 2025 Graduation
MIC is Muslim-led reconciliation in action. The seed has been planted. The plant is growing. But it needs a forest.
Imam Irshad Osman
Founder, MIC & CMIR
Visiting the residential school and seeing with my own eyes the suffering and the love made me more aware and curious than the school lessons I attended or videos I watched before
MIC student
2025 cohort
To me reconciliation means to work towards honoring those who have been impacted by this genocide, by making reparations (through monetary, physical, emotional services and donations), by awareness, acknowledgement, and dismantling of systemic barriers against Indigenous peoples.
MIC student
2025 cohort
I view the knowledge that I have about Indigenous nations as a responsibility, and I try to raise the awareness of family members, friends, and school mates about issues faced by Indigenous communities, such as the MMIWG crisis.
MIC student
2025 cohort
Recognition
In 2025, MIC was selected as a successful youth engagement model at the 5th Global Youth Work Conference in Malaysia, organized by the Commonwealth Secretariat – a credibility anchor that speaks to the program’s design, not just its intentions.
Youth-Led Micro-Projects (2025 Cohort)
- Awareness campaign on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG) and discrimination facing Indigenous people.
- A project exploring Indigenous animal symbolism.
- A project connecting the REDress Project to Islamic teachings on the dignity of women.
- Interviews with Indigenous individuals who have converted to Islam or Christianity.