Nunavut seniors advocacy society up and running in Iqaluit – CBC

Board president Lazarus Arreak says the advocacy society is the 1st in the territory’s history

Mar 16, 2018

A non-profit, seniors advocacy organization, Nunavut Seniors Society, began operating in Iqaluit at the end of January, but the board president says the society is still in its early days and needs further support to get fully off the ground.

President Lazarus Arreak said senior advocacy had been a long time coming for the territory.

“We did a needs assessment a few years back visiting maybe half the communities in Nunavut,” Arreak said. “We found that [this] is a required move. Up to now we’ve really had no organized voice for the territory.”

“Eventually we’d like to set up a sister operation … throughout Nunavut,” Arreak said.

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