FW: Please help me help the elders of the Lakota Oyate
 
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 03:12:02 -0500 (CDT)

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-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Rabin [mailto:rockartist1@earthlink.net]
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2006 4:07 PM
To: undisclosed-recipients:
Subject: Please help me help the elders of the Lakota Oyate

My friends, Mitakuye Oyasin [all my relations]

You would not be getting this email if you were not part of my list of
friends.
Fall in Colorado means numbing cold on the Pine Ridge Rez.
It is again my job to bring this need to your thoughts.
It is a good feeling to help in saving lives and thats what in fact I am
asking you to do.
With the holidays coming up and the season of giving right around the
corner.
Im asking you to help in supporting me supply propane, electric and firewood
to the Elders of the following areas.
Pine Ridge Reservation, Cheyenne River Reservation, Crow Creek Reservation,
Lower Brule Reservation, Rosebud Reservation, Sisseton-Wahpeton Reservation,
Yankton Reservation, Flandreau Santee Reservation The least amount the
propane companies will take to each customer is 100.00.
Depending on the size of the family and the weather this will last about a
week.
Although any donation is welcome, I wanted you to have a real time feel of
what we are trying to do. If you cant justify 100.00 can you help with 50.00
or 25.00.
We are expecting 160 new applications from just one small area of Pine Ridge
Rez this fall. How many more will come for help.
On top of our existing numbers we are feeling overwhelmed and need to ask
for your help.
Please pass this email on if you will, please consider the first nations
people in your giving this holiday season. What better gift than a warm
place to live. To survive and enjoy the Creators gifts.
Thank you for your consideration.
If you received this and wish to be removed from my email list, please reply
with remove in the subject line. But I ask you to consider this a dire
emergency, other wise I would not ask.
Information on the program is here, please scroll down.
he-c'e-tu-yelo [so be it]

In Peace
keith rabin
native american landscapes,inc.
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Link Center Foundation
An All-Volunteer Colorado Non-Profit Organization Application for 501(c)(3)
Federal Tax Exemption Pending

(Rev.)  Audrey L. Link, Founder and President

P.O. Box 2253 ~ Longmont, CO 80502-2253
Phone: 303-554-5363 Voice Mail ~ 888-220-1653 Office
Email: linkcenterfounda@earthlink.net
Website:  www.LinkCenterFoundation.com

Utility and Heating Assistance Program
For the Lakota Siouxan Elders, the Disabled or the Sick Who Live On the
Reservations of South Dakota

8 Siouxan Reservations in South Dakota Pine Ridge Reservation, Cheyenne
River Reservation, Crow Creek Reservation, Lower Brule Reservation, Rosebud
Reservation, Sisseton-Wahpeton Reservation, Yankton Reservation, Flandreau
Santee Reservation

Among the poorest indigenous people in the United States

Over 60% of the homes are severely sub-standard, many without running water
or electricity

Average income on the Oglala Lakota Sioux Pine Ridge Reservation is only
approximately $3500.00 per YEAR while unemployment hovers around 85% on this
2.7 million acre Reservation housing app. 40,000 people

Winter low temperatures in South Dakota average 9* F (November through
February)Made worse with bitter wind-chill factors and Record Temperatures
reaching -44* below 0*F (1996)

Lakota have died from hypothermia due to inability to pay for heating

The majority of funding goes to help the Elders only.  However, there are
those occasions when the disabled or sick are in crisis situations and
critically in need of heat.  Even though they may not be actual Elders, Link
Center Foundation finds it cannot, and will not, turn away from them.
Therefore, this project will now also include those rare and reasonable
instances of severe need by those who are disabled and/or sick.

Help Us Help the Elders, the Disabled and Sick!

All applicants screened and documented
Payments made directly to utility, propane, wood, or heat equipment
companies Donations carefully tracked and accountable

Note:
As with all Non-Profits, your donations are tax deductible to the extent
allowable by law.
Please consult your tax advisor.

Please mark your check: "Utility and Heating Fund"
Otherwise, all donations will be placed in the General Operating Fund which
supports all projects of the organization.

Please send donations to:
Link Center Foundation
P.O. Box 2253 ~ Longmont, CO 80502-2253
or donate online @ line www.linkcenterfoundation.com

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