Folks in Arviat have really pulled together to make the best of the challenges faced in warding off Covid-19, said the community's senior administrative officer.
Steve England said the hamlet, itself, has done all it can to make life a little easier for people. He said it's been a real team effort on many levels to put precautions in place and, hopefully soon, get everyday life back to normal.
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SA国际影视传媒淭he hamlet went out and delivered 640 cleaning kits a couple of weeks ago, one for every household, and, this week, we're going out with between 300 and 400 food hampers for people in need.
SA国际影视传媒淲e also have $45,000 worth of games and toys on the way to deliver to all the kids in the community to help keep them busy while they're at home, and we're also getting ready to distribute another cleaning kit.
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England said the hamlet has spent a tremendous amount of money battling Covid-19, which it intends to keep-up as long as necessary.
He said hamlet administration has been very proud and very happy to see how Arviatmiut have reacted to the pandemic.
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SA国际影视传媒淭o date, we've probably spent about $150,000 in cleaning supplies, food, and toys and activities for the kids. We know there will be more support coming. There's no doubt it.
SA国际影视传媒淣unavut Tunngavik Inc. also passed along $50,000 to every community which SA国际影视传媒� while I understand they wanted to get it out quickly SA国际影视传媒� was, sort of, unfair to all the larger communities like Arviat.
SA国际影视传媒淲e received a lot less per capita, but we're hoping that gets corrected in the future. And we're still waiting to see what the Kivalliq Inuit Association is going to do for the beneficiaries in the community and we hope to hear something on that quite soon.SA国际影视传媒�
England said it's easy to see that everybody, every organization, is doing what it can right now which, he said, is quite amazing.
SA国际影视传媒淲e've been meeting on a weekly basis with all the retailers in town and everything is good to report on that side of things.
SA国际影视传媒淲e're watching the situation closely with them and the hamlet has done some bulk buys on hand sanitizers, masks, gloves paper towels and toilet paper, so we could fill the gaps in the short term, just in case there ever is a problem.
SA国际影视传媒淭here's always a few in any community who don't listen, but I'm happy to say we have very few in our community like that, and our community members are watching, helping and reminding each other of just how serious this all is.
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