;_; Thats all we have, Mablick says, and theres six kids. .................... Back in his cramped Iqaluit apartment, Mablick sips from a mug of lukewarm tea brewed with a tea bag he has already used a few times. He reuses tea bags to save money. He hasnt eaten in a week and he turns to tea to stave off hunger pangs. He gives what little food he has to his five children, who are between the ages of one-and-a-half and 11. Mablick, clad in a torn white Qikiqtani Inuit Association T-shirt, says he has been out of work since he quit his job at Parks Canada in October over a dispute with a supervisor. He would not elaborate. Social assistance trickles in, but its not enough to feed the entire household. So Mablick has been forced to sell most of his possessions to put food on the table. Parting with his snowmobile was especially difficult, he said. Pretty much everything that we can sell — jewellery or carvings, whatever, he said. I mean, Ill go to my shack, which is outside, Ill carve something and sell something, but its been a while since I carved. I started working on a cribbage board but its been so cold that my toes are freezing so I cant really carve anything right now. Like many hungry people in Nunavut, Mablick also turns to friends and family for food, but knows they face their own struggles.
Posted on: Sat, 24 Jan 2015 01:24:18 +0000
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