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Attawapiskat Informative Speech

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I am here to write to you about a serious issue that has gone on for far too long already. Most likely, you must have heard of the suicide crisis occurring in the community, along with all the suicide attempts happening there, the living conditions and the increasing suicide rates. I am sure that you are aware that this type of issue has happened in the past involving the community of Attawapiskat and that this is not the first time you have seen or heard of Attawapiskat and its issues in the media. This community has been the center of many issues, including the housing crisis, and the suicide crisis and so on. The suicide rates there have risen quite rapidly especially when being compared to the suicide rates in the rest of Canada. Yet back …show more content…

The lives of the people in Attawapiskat are so poor, that some of them, especially the youth, are even taking their own lives away. If such a crisis like this, were to ever happen somewhere else or to a non-Aboriginal community, I guarantee that help would be immediately sent, but why wouldn’t help be immediately sent to the community of Attawapiskat when they need it the most? Is the life of a person in Attawapiskat or an Aboriginal less important than others? In addition to this, just last month in April there have been so far 11 attempts made by people trying to end their lives, and in March, there were 28 attempts. If Canada was such a great country, why would the citizens of Attawapiskat, try to end their own …show more content…

I know they have sent a few mental health nurses and social workers to aid the people who attempted to suicide and suffer from mental illnesses, but a few can not prevent them from committing suicide, or trying to attempt it once more. There is no way to be able to fix this issue immediately, nonetheless, there are things that you can do to make the situation improve. Due to the fact that there is no perfect solution to this crisis, the best you can do is to try to make the lives of the citizens of the community of Attawapiskat better and somewhat like the lives of an average Canadian, and provide them with funding and other things like proper funding for schools, homes, fresh water, proper health care and employment. It would help lift suicidal thoughts by providing what you can to make their lives better and bring them to a better mental

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