Half of Nunavut's Children go Hungry

Less than a month after UNICEF released the Canadian Supplement to its State of the World’s Children 2009 report outlining deplorable health and poverty issues among Aboriginal children, information gathered during the 2007-2008 Qanuippitali Inuit health survey shows that half of Nunavut’s’ children are going hungry on a regular basis.

Why is it that in a country listed among the wealthiest of First World Nations so many Inuit live in these conditions?

How many times do the socio-economic conditions among Inuit have to be documented and reported in the media before Canada takes concrete action to address those conditions?

There must be significant change in the way that Inuit housing, health, education, and employment issues are dealt with before we will see improvement in the living conditions of our people. I have said many times before that I, and other Inuit, stand ready to work with any government in power, and territorial leaders to develop the holistic solutions that are so badly needed to address these problems, and that statement remains as true today as is was on the first day of my first term as ITK President.

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