How are the funds helping the communities of NWT and Nunavut?
DB: One of the reasons we feel so strongly about our program is that our breakfast programs, for example, have been proven to get kids to school. What was happening before was that parents would either not send their kids to school because they had no food to send them with or the kids were too tired to go because they didn’t have a good dinner the night before. With the breakfast program, parents are finding that it’s okay to send them to school without food cause they know they’ll be fed there. That means kids are actually getting to school, which is step one. What we are finding from a territorial perspective is that one of the challenges is a lack of skilled workers. Keep in mind, you need to finish grade 10 to get a welding certificate, for example, but you need to keep a child in school till grade 10 first! So we’re hoping the long term effect of the nutrition program is that we will have an educated population. Of course, they can concentrate better if they are fed. And, sociall
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