What if They Declared an Emergency and No One Came?
lfar:
“It’s been three weeks since Attawapiskat First Nation took the extraordinary step of declaring a state of emergency. Since then, not a single federal or provincial official has even bothered to visit the community.
No aid agencies have stepped forward. No disaster management teams have offered help.
Meanwhile temperatures have dropped 20 degrees and will likely drop another 20 or 25 degrees further in the coming weeks. For families living in uninsulated tents, makeshift cabins and sheds, the worsening weather poses serious risk.”
Here is an organization that supports them:
http://truenorthaid.ca/2011-10-18/aid-to-attawapiskat
Also, here’s a 12-year-old whose idea to build a playground there won a $25,000 Pepsi grant (and is going to do it again in every northern community):
http://www.refresheverything.ca/playground4kash
MPs to write:
Tony Clement, Minister for the Federal Economic Development Initiative for Northern Ontario
John Duncan, Minister for Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development
Leona Aglukkaq, Minister of Health
Write/phone/fax/etc. Just do it.
