2022 AGSL Fifth Annual Giving Project: Pine Ridge Families
January 25, 2022
Welcome to our fifth year supporting families on the Pine Ridge Reservation Okini! I never would have thought we’d be doing this five years later but this amazing community really comes together every year and I appreciate y’all deeply!
Some background on this amazing project:
In 2018, a small group of us came together to give holiday gifts to Lakota families. In 2019, I organized, this time earlier in the year, and expanded to include holiday needs.
The goal for 2020 became to make this a year-round project and amid COVID sweeping the world, pregnancy, and a tumultous Presidential election year in the United States, we put $2153.05 to work responding to ten separate requests for aid.
I kicked off 2021 with a boatload of goods to the Allen Youth Center dedicated to helping Lakota youth specifically: diapers, wipes, body soap, shampoo and conditioner. We ended the year with gifts to the Youth Center for the holidays – almost. It turns out that folks had more to give through the end of the year and we helped another family with much needed diapers before I had to take a break.
All told in 2021, we deployed $6606 responding to 18 requests and helping over 60 people. What a year.
This year I am tweaking it a little bit. Last year I sent around a last call for the start of November and then… we just kept rolling anyway! I’m not going to turn down resources to help people, but at some point I do have to take a break.
I will accept donations all year round and the cut off date will only apply to the shopping part. Anything that isn’t spent on 2022 families will roll over to 2023 families.
I hope you can join me and/or share the project!
You can make contributions to ….
1. My Ko-Fi page (note: Ko-Fi flows through Paypal so they do take fees out of what you send)
Update: AGSL’s PayPal can’t receive friends and family gifts anymore so we’re updating contribution methods soon!
