The needs of the Pine Ridge Reservation Lakota people are so great as to be staggering. Pine Ridge Reservation is in the southwest corner of South Dakota and home to approximately 40,000 Lakota (Sioux). The reservation covers the poorest two counties in the nation with an average 86 percent unemployment, and 63% of the residents living below the federal poverty level. Sixty-five percent of them are under 16 years of age. A majority of these homes don't even have stoves, refrigerators, heating or plumbing. Families live in overcrowded, substandard conditions-no insulation, dirt floors, and the occupants must carry water from the local rivers for their needs.

 

Donations go for the following.

1. Propane for familes with no income too heat their homes and cook meals.

2. Truck loads of wood for families with no income or transportion.

3. Single mothers to provide their family with the supplies they need to raise a well healthy family.