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Urgent Needs
Okini
is a Lakota word meaning to share material things. A ONE Spirit goal is to help
strengthen families by sharing the material things with which most of us are
blessed. It is extremely difficult to be a strong family when there is no food,
no heat in winter, or the home is without electricity. It becomes even more
harrowing if you have a child who needs medical treatment that can only be obtained
at some distant facility and you cannot afford the expense of the trip. Or when
a parent has health problems that are not adequately treated. When these urgent
needs are not met through a government or tribal program, ONE Spirit provides
help to the limit of available funds.
You can help us to meet the critical needs of Lakota families. Whether we warm
a home, put food on the dinner table, or buy a pair of shoes, together we can
help a family provide security for their children.
The ONE Spirit Clothing Collection Program
There is a year-round need for clothing
of all kinds for people of all ages on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
The need is especially severe in the winter, when temperatures plummet in South
Dakota.
The ONE Spirit Clothing Collection program needs a volunteer program manager to handle the logistics of taking in donations, transporting them to the reservation, and getting them distributed at that end.
More to come here about the Clothing Collection program.
For further information about the Okini Program, contact Jennifer Night Bird Graham, jnightbird@mindspring.com