“Being Aboriginal, and knowing that diabetes tends to affect the Aboriginal population more than the average Canadian, I am proud to be a Diabetes Champion through my work with the Metis Diabetes Education Project in Saskatchewan. Diabetes runs deep in my family and community. Working together, we should be able to eradicate this disease; it is manageable, but also preventable, but has become a big epidemic because of our change in lifestyle, a lack of activity, and a poor diet.”

-George Fayant is a facilitator for the Metis Diabetes Education Project – working in Metis communities to provide culturally appropriate health programming to people at high risk for diabetes.