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

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

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

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

-Lisa

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.

~Shania

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

-Robin Iqqaat

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

Samantha

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

Verna

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

-Harriet