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B.C. Woman Organizes Care Packages To Fight The Northern Food Crisis

Nobody should have to pay $28 for a head of lettuce anywhere — let alone in Canada.

That's the belief that drives Jennifer Gwilliam, who spends her days organizing food care packages for people she's never met. But she's not even sending aid to a Third World country; she's sending it to Canada's remote north.

The high prices of groceries in Nunavut, for example — $47 for a box of laundry detergent or $105 for a case of water — have drawn increasing outcry from Canadians over the last few years.

"It was just shocking to see the prices they were paying for a head of cabbage or a flat of water," Gwilliam told The Huffington Post B.C. "I was just appalled. It's hard enough to make ends meet down here, let alone with those sort of prices. So I wanted to do something."

After doing some digging, Gwilliam came across the Facebook group Feeding My Family, designed to raise awareness about the northern crisis and advocate for change. But she wanted to turn outrage into action, so she started her own Facebook group, Helping Our Northern Neighbours, last summer.

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