Wood Program for Pine Ridge
Donation protected
The people of Pine Ridge Reservation are desperately in need of firewood to heat their homes every winter.
Have you ever been cold in your own home with no options of warming up other than sleeping in your car?
Me neither and I can not imagine.
Donate anything you can spare.
$5 or $10 dollars from each you can make this campaign a success.
Your contribution will be life changing for many people struggling through a bitter cold winter with little or no heat.
Short term goal - secure enough wood for this season, and supply gear needed to cut, split and deliver to homes. WE DID IT! On to the long term goal.
Long term goal – no more heat crisis on Pine Ridge Reservation. We are starting a wood program that will allow wood to be stockpiled during the summer for use the following winter. We also want people to be able to have wood for heat before they run out or before a winter storm creates panic as they face below zero temperatures.
The Lakota have lived with this condition for as long as any of them can remember. Yesterday an elder gentleman walked more than 10 miles to get to the One Spirit distribution building to see if he could get stove pipes for an old stove he found. The pipes were bought and taken to a trailer where he was living. His plan was to have the pipes put on the stove and then have the pipes go out the window. There was no back door on his place and most of the windows could not be closed.
An elderly couple offered their food stamps to a One Spirit wood program in return for some wood for heat.
A family home that shelters 13 members were without heat.
Another family was burning clothes when the wood was delivered.
The stories continue… Enough is enough.
Right now One Spirit has less than 10 people cutting, splitting wood and delivering to homes per pickup load. They are working with 2 wood splitters, 2 chain saws and 1 set of safety gear. Men are going out to cut wood in zero weather conditions with only sneakers, no gloves, and coats that do not provide warmth.
Please donate if you can , share all over social media and ask your friends to do the same.
Thank you for your consideration
Sarah Hamilton
Jeri Baker
Director, One Spirit
Checks payable to - One Spirit, P.O Box 3209, Rapid City, SD 57709.
Funds will be distributed by One Spirit
http://nativeprogress.org/en/
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/on-this-indian-reservation-locals-are-in-survival-mode-during-the-winter_us_5a54ddd0e4b003133ecca7bb
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/13/health/iyw-american-indian-lakota-charity-one-spirit-firewood-program/index.html
Have you ever been cold in your own home with no options of warming up other than sleeping in your car?
Me neither and I can not imagine.
Donate anything you can spare.
$5 or $10 dollars from each you can make this campaign a success.
Your contribution will be life changing for many people struggling through a bitter cold winter with little or no heat.
Short term goal - secure enough wood for this season, and supply gear needed to cut, split and deliver to homes. WE DID IT! On to the long term goal.
Long term goal – no more heat crisis on Pine Ridge Reservation. We are starting a wood program that will allow wood to be stockpiled during the summer for use the following winter. We also want people to be able to have wood for heat before they run out or before a winter storm creates panic as they face below zero temperatures.
The Lakota have lived with this condition for as long as any of them can remember. Yesterday an elder gentleman walked more than 10 miles to get to the One Spirit distribution building to see if he could get stove pipes for an old stove he found. The pipes were bought and taken to a trailer where he was living. His plan was to have the pipes put on the stove and then have the pipes go out the window. There was no back door on his place and most of the windows could not be closed.
An elderly couple offered their food stamps to a One Spirit wood program in return for some wood for heat.
A family home that shelters 13 members were without heat.
Another family was burning clothes when the wood was delivered.
The stories continue… Enough is enough.
Right now One Spirit has less than 10 people cutting, splitting wood and delivering to homes per pickup load. They are working with 2 wood splitters, 2 chain saws and 1 set of safety gear. Men are going out to cut wood in zero weather conditions with only sneakers, no gloves, and coats that do not provide warmth.
Please donate if you can , share all over social media and ask your friends to do the same.
Thank you for your consideration
Sarah Hamilton
Jeri Baker
Director, One Spirit
Checks payable to - One Spirit, P.O Box 3209, Rapid City, SD 57709.
Funds will be distributed by One Spirit
http://nativeprogress.org/en/
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/on-this-indian-reservation-locals-are-in-survival-mode-during-the-winter_us_5a54ddd0e4b003133ecca7bb
http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/13/health/iyw-american-indian-lakota-charity-one-spirit-firewood-program/index.html
Organizer
Sarah Hamilton
Organizer
Grand Marais, MN
