Hello, my name is Naftali and I’m going to talk a little bit about Canada first nation’s children. Did you know that the total number of First Nations is, approximately, eight hundred fifty-one thousand? First nations’ main crops were corn, beans and squash so that’s what the kids used to eat. The main crops and the other crops are harvested in the fall season. They have many different tribes. They have many languages for all the tribes. One of them is Ojibwa and they refer to wild rice as Maintou go ti gahn which is translated to food from the great spirits garden.

More than half of the first nations children, today, lives in poverty. The poverty rate for first nations children is higher than any other disadvantaged group of people. Approximately half of the first nation’s children goes to school hungry every day. To help them, there is a foundation that has been put in place and it’s called FEED THE CHILDREN. They run many different programs to help with food, nutrition, education and school gardens. So let’s help the first nation children for a better and brighter future for all Canadians.