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Food helps contribute to community wellness by bringing people together at celebrations and events such as birthdays and holidays. There’s always more than enough food to share with everyone and when there’s left over food people give it out to those who need it.

-Harriet

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How does food contribute to community wellness?

Food contributes to community when hunters shares their catch and give out to people and can feed many families, hunters in pang shares their catch to community all the time like, already cut up meat for pick ups, some delivers and we get invited to the school or hamlet for community feast and there usually quiet a few different country food, fish, seal, caribou, mattaaq and igunaq (fermented walrus) -Martha

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Food brings people together. Sharing meals, cooking together, or gathering at events builds relationships and sense of belongings. It strengthens bonds between families, neighbours, and communities.

Verna

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How does food contribute to community wellness?

Giving out country food to elders or someone who doesn’t have transportation to go hunting is really important especially to an elder's because knowing them they survived back in the days for country food it was only their food daily. It is really sad to see them when they want food such as country food, we have coda for belugas and caribou’s. I thank the HTO for having community feast at least twice a year and give out food for elders.

- Annie

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Food brings people together on the table or floor to connect with one another and eat together. With prayer first before we dig in, well all join the prayer. Then we catch up with our lives by talking to one another. Makes us more happy and closer together by feasting good food together. Brings imidiate family’s to the whole family.

Samantha

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How dose food contribute to community wellness?

When the community gather for a community feast , people are happy because they are going to eat traditional food which many crave for. People socialize talking laughing. They eat better with other around. Eating traditional food is very healthy.

Karen

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Food contributes to community wellness by gathering the community. There’s a thrift store/food bank in Baker Lake that does hot lunch programs and encourages the community to join, program promotes community wellness by providing a warm place to eat and a hot meal. This promotes better mental health for individuals who come and join.

-Robin Iqqaat

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Linda Leah

Food contribute is for the whole communities to gather to eat country food as fish,caribou and some seal meat and some caribou stew,fish stew and boiled seal meat and some tea and bannock after eating some inuksiutit niqiit. It helps so many people especially elders who don’t have anyone to hunt for them, and they always enjoyed gathering around people they love seeing happy people around them when food is contributed, I’m always happy and grateful to the organization to contribute food for people to eat conutry food

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Food contributes to community wellness by helping those who is struggling with feeding their families. Getting Their nutritions will help keep people warm and function. It also contributes when there is special occasions in the community and they’ll have feast for the town and everyone gathers and be social. During community feast they’ll have caribou stew, buns and it will help those who craves traditional meat.

~Shania

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Contributing food to community.

Food contributions to the community = happy, fed people. It also supports their physical health by providing nutritious foods, these gatherings also provide a good social environment, everyone is happy to see each other. The food we eat helps improve our mood and energy. Sharing traditional foods is a way of passing down knowledge, traditions and a sense of history across generations and generations. reinforcing a shared community identity.

-Angel A.

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Food contributes to community wellness by fostering social connections, makes one have a sense of belonging, strengthens cultural identity via traditional foods, and promotes mental well-being by offering comfort and routine. On January 4, I held a turkey dinner to celebrate my son’s early birthday party. Both sides of our family were invited to come eat at our apartment and that made everyone so happy to be spend time together. My son was the happiest to have all his family members over to celebrate for his early birthday party (his birthday is January 5, but we were returning back to school/work on that day). After his party, I had a bit of help cleaning up, and team work is important because we learn to work with each other, be there for one another and it helps get the job done faster.

-Lisa

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Community wellness

Food contributes community wellness by bringing healthy nutrition > boost energy > social interactions = community wellness, it could be a community program, a get together with family, friends. We have a lunch program in our community that provides healthy nutritious meals and eat at their building, that brings a community together and have social interactions. It could even be within a food bank- that provides vouchers for the community to get meals for their health and wellness.

Hattie Aningaat

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How food contribute to community is providing free meat,fish (etc), makes everyone happy, makes elders satisfy their cravings (everyone also).

Also providing for community to have a feast,such as special occasion, wedding, grads, elders day

Give’s motivation to younger generation

Gathering as a community, being social with those we haven’t been around in a long time.

Being around family at home also because we cook at home for family and friends when they’re over visiting, my family and I invite our elderly uncle and his wife to come and eat with us, we get free seal, or whale from other community and eat those too….

-krisy

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How does food contribute to community wellness?

Food contributes to community wellness by providing physical nourishment, and fostering social connections through shared meal and boosting local economies, preserving cultural identity and improving mental health.

Sharing food with the community shows that you are being welcoming and open towards others.

-Hillary

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Food contribute

Food contribute to the community wellness by feeding the whole community. Gathering with the community is so kind because we all are sharing what is contribute. We start sharing our food with the community during special occasions. We know that the community will eat what was given to the community. Seeing others eat during special occasions is so wonderful to see because we all struggle sometime. We share are country food with the community, esp when we first catch our first animal, once we catch our first animal (caribou) we post on social media to give out the meat.

-Holly Kayuryuk

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