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Blog Entries for March 20083/31/08 Here's a thank you letter from the Red Cloud High School kids for the rocket parts! Dear Members of FoPRR, On behalf of the TARC team of Red Cloud High School, Stevie, Dylan, Ashley, Danielle and Willie , we would like thank you for your generous donations. Without your help we would not have been able to pursue our passion of rocketry in participating in the Team America Rocketry Contest. We were very excited when we heard about the contest and the opportunity to build a potential contest rocket. However, with our very low budget we were not able to order the parts needed to complete our rocket. With your generosity we are now able to compete in the contest and we are working hard and giving it our all. On behalf of our physics class High School at Red Cloud we would like to thank you for your generous donations in helping us to build our rocket to compete in the Team America Rocket Contest. Your donation has been very helpful because without your donations our dream of competing in this contest wouldn’t be possible. Again thank you, wopila tanka. 3/30/08 Please take a look at our newest donation drive to send dictionaries and thesauri to the reservation for the library. These are not replacements, they simply have none and no budget to purchase any! By the way, new copies would be terrific, but gently used copies of the titles they need, in good condition, are also acceptable. Thanks so much for your help. Dictionary and Thesaurus Donation Drive 3/29/08 Help! Did you donate the launch controller for the Red Cloud High School rocketry contest donation drive? If so, can you let me know? Apparently it has not yet arrived at the school and the kids are under a serious time crunch. Thanks! Here's a link to it in case you need a memory jog. 3/29/08 The Cangleska battered women's shelter on the reservation helps literally many hundreds of women each year and the majority of them have small children with them, most all in need of clothing. They are in need of clothing for the kids, appropriate for summer weather, from newborn through size 12. New items are very welcome, as are gently used clothing, still in good condition. Shorts, pants, t-shirts, blouses, shirts, and sun dresses would be wonderful as well as socks, underwear (new only please) and athletic shoes. Thanks so much for your help! Click here for details on the Children's Clothing Donation Drive. 3/23/08 It's so unfortunate that Cangleska has lost the lease on it's Rapid City battered women's shelter. If you are lucky enough to be surrounded by loving family and in a safe home this Easter Sunday, please share your good fortune by sending a tax-deductible donation to Cangleska today. Click here to donate via the PayPal button at the Cangleska website--and you don't need to have a PayPal account to donate if you'd like to use a credit card. You can also donate by sending a check or money order made out to "Cangleska, Inc." to:
Cangleska, Inc. Please include a note on your check that the donation is to help with the Rapid City shelter. Or you can go to the PayPal website and donate using this address: paypal@cangleska.org Thank you so much for your support of the good work that Cangleska does for so many women and children in crisis; Happy Easter!
3/21/08 Here's another thank you letter for your generous donations of baby formula and disposable diapers! Chris and Friends of Pine Ridge Reservation: On behalf of the Cedar Face Foundation, 1,2,3...Hi Baby! we are so thankful for your donations; I cannot express enough the heartfelt feelings from our mothers, who appreciate the assistance and, each recognize all of these gifts are from the heart; thank you! We also recognize, these donations cost money, from collecting these gifts, mailing/United Parcel/FedEx, delivery, all has costs; this is appreciated as well, thank you! With your gifts you have helped many of our mothers provide for their precious gifts--their newborns, infants, toddlers, and children especially since our weather has been so unpredictably cold with the many snow storms. With your gifts, you have helped offset costs, so our mothers can pay specific bills for electricity, propane, and food for their families. You and your organization, specifically donors, are our "angels in disguise." We continue to pray for all of you, we wish you health, happiness and may the cycle of life continue with you! Respectfully submitted,
Frederick Cedar Face
3/20/08 There are many women in the Kateri Circle Sewing Group that sew clothing and other items for their families and also make pillows, quilts and other craft items. They can especially use our help at the moment with pillow forms and quilt batting (click here for details) and if you have fabric and/or other sewing notions that you no longer need they would be very appreciative of your donations! 3/18/08 Just got word that the Oyate Teca Project youth center has had to reschedule their Easter Party for April 3rd, which will give us a bit more time to get some goodies out to them for the Easter hunt and celebration. Be sure to take advantage of those after Easter sales, especially for the plastic Easter eggs--they can use about 1,200 of them--and if you can fill them with some goodies, all the better! Supplies for an After Easter Egg Hunt and Party 3/16/08 We're getting very close to finishing off the donation drive for the Brownies but we are still short on uniform shirts. Please let me know if you can donate one for the girls! Brownie Uniforms Donation Drive 3/15/08 Please note the new P.O. address for LOWO:
LOWO The UPS/FedEx/DHL address remains the same:
LOWO
3/14/08 Almost daily one of the children at the Wolf Creek Elementary School ends up in the nurse's office due to an accident and needs a change of clothing. The nurse can use your help with supplies for the kids! Click here for more info: Supplies for the WCES School Nurse 3/13/08 Great job on the Rocketry supplies donation drive for Red Cloud High School everyone--thanks so much for helping the kids! 3/12/08 The Oyate Teca Project youth center is going to hold an Easter party for the community after the holiday, on March 28th (this has since been changed to April 3rd), and they can use your help. Read more here: Supplies for an After Easter Party 3/8/08 Received this letter yesterday from the librarian at the Oglala Lakota College Library, the sole public library available to all residents of the reservation. Thanks so much for your continued support of the Build Your Own Library books project with new books for the kids! Hi Chris, I know many of the donated children's books we get for our Build Your Own Library project are coming from Friends of Pine Ridge Reservation donors and we continue to try and send thank you notes to everyone but we may miss some. Please let those in the organization that continue to help us in any way they can know that they are soooooo appreciated. I wanted everyone to know what we are doing with the Build Your Own Library project and why we have chosen this method rather than only doing summer programs or a month. Thanks, Chris, for all your help. I know your donors well understand that libraries are always understaffed. We have such a struggle trying to organize a structured summer program in all the districts on our reservation; so many children aren't able to attend so we thought we would try to help them build their own little libraries so they can ALL have books in their homes. It was with the intent to get these little people and their brothers and sisters the books to take home that we started this project. Needless to say it has been so rewarding personally and professionally for all of us to receive books that are given with love and no strings and we thank you so much for your interest, time and the generosity that we have all benefited from. With the Build Your Own Library project, one of our targets is preschool children and the picture books you are sending are so loved and treasured. We also accept chapter books and junior high materials and paperback novels for teenagers and adults are also very well received. When we first started we had too tight of a schedule and had not anticipated the response we would get from donors and were just buried in books, but we now have a marvelous system worked out where we can sort the books, box them up and can track the approximate number of books we'll have and children we are able to help. This summer we will put it to the test and once again we will go to each of the 11 districts once every two weeks, have story reading for several hours and make sure everyone has 3 to 4 or more books to take home! During the winter we provide donated books to the Early Head Start, Head Start and day care programs across the reservation. Books are sent home with the children and we replenish them on a monthly basis. We also have Tuesday and Thursday story time when little groups of Early Head Start, Head Start and kindergarten children come into the main library and we read to them. We have boxes prepared to send to their centers and then we put a book in every pair of little hands--it is fabulous to see their little faces; ahhhhh life is good! Thank you everyone!
Michelle May
3/7/08 The kids in the science class at Red Cloud High School are participating in a national rocketry contest, the goal of which is to build and fly a model rocket carrying two raw eggs that achieves a precise flight duration of 45 seconds, reaches a precise altitude of 750 feet, and returns both eggs uncracked! The kids have to design and build the rocket themselves. Unfortunately, they've run out of money from the school budget for this project and are short on parts. I'd like to get some help out to them (and they need these parts as soon as we can get them out there) so they can stay in the competition. Please take a look at the new donation drive for them and let me know if you can donate anything. Thanks so much for helping out the high school kids and encouraging them with the hands-on projects! Rocketry Contest Supplies for Red Cloud High School 3/6/08 The kids in Red Shirt have no community resources available to them and thus have lots of idle time with no outlet. The Red Shirt Elementary School would like to start up some "Game Nights" and open up the school to the students and their families but they need help with the purchase of the games--which is where we come in! Please take a look at this new donation drive listing and donate a game or two to the school if you can. Your generosity will provide many hours of entertainment for these children and their families. Thanks so much for your help; it is so appreciated!
3/5/08 The weather is still inclement on the reservation (there's a chance of snow on Thursday and the low is expected to be 8 degrees)--and Cangleska can still use space heaters and winter coats! 3/1/08 Kicking off three new donation drives today, please take a look! |