qondio.com/0j6b PRINT EMAIL
Native American Heritage Foundation The Native American Heritage Association is a charity that serves the Pine Ridge Lakota reservation in South Dakota. This is the poorest county in the entire US with 63% of people living below the poverty line and with 70% unemployment. NAHA's most important ongoing program is operating a food bank. South Dakota's winters are brutal, often falling to subzero temperatures. NAHA provides families with school age children a voucher each labor day to buy new winter gear for their kids so they can attend school. If they don't have the right gear, children are often kept home because of the fear of frostbite. Many homes on the reservation are unheated, even in brutal winters. Or the residents run out of money to pay for heat. This leads to sad stories such as this article about a grandmother froze to death in -17 degree weather because she could not afford to heat her home. NAHA helps purchase stoves and heating oil. They also provide equipment to cut wood for stoves and truck in wood from elsewhere in South Dakota. In addition to this, the area is very isolated so if something does go wrong, help is often far away. Many residents don't own cars, and even if they did, don't have the money for gas. Many residents are 50 to 100 miles from the nearest hospital. Thus NAHA operates two wheelchair accessible vans to bring residents to Rapid City hospital. They also operate an overnight facility in Rapid City where people getting dialysis or chemotherapy can stay instead of being in the hospital.

External Links

Native American Heritage Association

Contributed by rainydaypaperback on February 17, 2008, at 2:24 AM UTC.

PLEASE VISIT THE CONTRIBUTOR'S WEBSITE

Rainy Day Paperback Gently used paperback book store www.rainydaypaperback.com

Reactions

No reactions yet.

Rate This Intel

Please login or sign up to rate this intel.

Comments

Please login or sign up to add a comment.

Share

Copyright Notice

The copyright for this content entitled "Native American Heritage Foundation" has been specified by the contributor as:

Public Domain

The copyright for this content has been relinquished by the author. The content may be used freely by anyone.

Login Here with Any Email Address Any Password Remember login No account? Sign up.

Intel Contributor

This intel was contributed by rainydaypaperback

Qondio Archive

May, 2012 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 2008 January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December 2009 January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December 2010 January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December 2011 January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December 2012 January, February, March, April, May

Sign Up

Not a member yet? Qondio is a powerful network for making it online. If you have a website to promote, we can help. Sign up and get in on the action.

About Qondio

Welcome to Qondio! Discover the awesome power this network can deliver by going to our About page. Or you could skip straight to the Sign Up form.