Broken Rainbow

This is an ongoing collection. Broken Rainbow has received 10000 pairs of socks from Bombas Socks through their Giving Partners program. Every year we will receive another 5000 pair and need to continue to cover the cost of delivering them to needy people on the Navajo Reservation. While most of us take it for granted we will have clean undergarments when needed not everyone on the reservation does. We also need to rent a unit to store the socks. We are working with St Michael's chapter, Tuba City, families on Big Mountain and other remote areas to determine those needing assistance.

Here's a little bit about our mission and history. The Academy Award-winning documentary Broken Rainbow inspired the non-profit Broken Rainbow. Katherine Smith of Big Mountain, Arizona was featured in the movie depicting the relocation of Navajo from their traditional homeland. I first met Katherine in 1998 when I was teaching and she visited my classroom. I visited her at Big Mountain, Arizona and build a strong friendship with her and other members of her family. Every year after that friends and strangers donated items that I delivered to her home and distribution point. Today, numerous families in remote areas of the Navajo reservation live without running water, electricity, and other necessities of life. Our fundraising provides families with water, food, clothing, blankets, etc., things most people take for granted.

We are always collecting and delivering other donated items to individual homes using monetary donations to pay for the fuel necessary to get to these families. We use several 4X4 trucks to drive the many miles on single-lane dirt roads riddled with potholes or washed out by recent flooding. Your donation are always appreciated. Thank you.

Want to join me in making a difference? I'm raising money to benefit Broken Rainbow, and any donation will help families acquire internet service in very remote locations on the Navajo Reservation. Many families have solar collectors to allow them to have electricity, however the only company proving internet on black Mesa went out of business. The families have enough income to afford the monthly service fee of $120, however purchasing a $750 dish is difficult.

We want to start with the purchase of 4 dishes with more purchased as funds become available.

More information about Broken Rainbow can be found at Brokenrainbow.org. There are people living on the Navajo Reservation without running water, electricity or other resources we take for granted. thanks for supporting our cause.

Broken Rainbow has received an urgent request from the president of the St Michaels Chapter on the Navajo Reservation for assistance to two families whose homes burnt to the ground. Each family lost everything. The chapter has found vacant accommodations for those families and we are collecting donations of used furniture and housewares and other necessities. We are asking for your assistance to rent a large truck to deliver these items. It is a 3-4 hour drive from Sedona to St Michaels; therefore, we need money to cover the cost of the rental truck, travel expenses such as fuel and meals for those who will volunteer their time.

Thanks for your continued support of Broken Rainbow a 501 (c) 3 corporation.