Early morning unloading of the truckload of beds
Residents loading beds to take home after the
big truckload delivery
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ONE Spirit Bed Program provides beds for American Indian people, especially children and elders living on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota. We want to see that every person there has a bed to sleep in and adequate bedding to be warm in the subzero temperatures of a South Dakota winter. We hope that our efforts in raising money for beds and bedding can provide Native People in our own country with at least a small taste of the comforts that most of us take for granted as the basics. We are enormously blessed in comparison, and with blessings comes the responsibility to share! Please help us achieve this goal one person, one family, one bed at a time; it is one of the most compassionate things you can do! All of us in ONE Spirit thank you for helping!
Next to housing and food, probably the most needed item in everyday American Indian reservation family life is a comfortable and warm place to sleep. On the Pine Ridge Reservation almost all homes have at least one person, and sometimes entire families, sleeping on the floor. Floors are hard and uncomfortable for sleeping, especially for the elders, and get very cold in winter. In warm weather family members, especially children, suffer insect bites, some from the brown recluse spider. The problem is even worse in homes shared by extended families where numerous people may sleep on the basement floor.
We buy beds and deliver them to homes where they are needed. We also work in cooperation with Re-Member (www.re-member.org) an organization on the reservation that builds bunk beds for kids. Each bed that we deliver consists of a frame, a box spring, and a decent quality mattress. Bedding includes a sheet and pillow case set, a pillow, and at least one blanket. Each delivery includes extermination of bed bugs, if necessary.
One of the first beds delivered as part of this program was to an elderly woman who was sleeping on the basement floor in the home of her grandchildren. When the bed was delivered, the woman started crying and said that she had never had her own bed before, in all of her 80 years on this planet!
Please consider helping to provide a warm place to sleep for children and elders.
Contact us at:
ONE Spirit Bed Program
Lynn McLaughlin, program manager
samhuinnspirit@aol.com
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Residents loading beds to take home after the
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