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CommUNITY Relief 

CommUNITY Relief & Resiliency

In response to the pandemic, CommUNITY Learning Network has been mobilizing our network of formal and informal relationships to build resiliency and support relief efforts for vulnerable, rural, and indigenous communities and community members impacted by COVID-19.

​The summer of 2020 was busy thanks to a generous donation of PPE from Intuitive Foundation. CLN began distribution of over 289,400 donated PPE to more than 49 tribes and agencies, helped Native American artists to build more than 250 websites to showcase their work, and helped coordinate deployment of more than 144 wireless Internet access points with the ITDRC to provide free Internet at community hotspots, and more! CLN also collaborated on community initiatives to provide supplies, funds, water and wood for Native elders and families in need, as well as furloughed staff and front-line health workers.  Browse the links provided to learn more about regional CommUNITY Relief efforts or click the button below to get involved and make a donation online.
COMMUNITY RELIEF & Resiliency FUND
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Tse da kaan, Dinetah (Navajo Nation)

Click on Links Below to Read  More
on CLN's Pandemic Response:
~ Distribution of more than 289,400 donated PPE

~ Websites for more than 250 SWAIA Native Artists
~ More than 144 Hotspots to provide Free Internet
~ Right Relations Fund for Navajo Nation
~ Spread Some Sunshine Fund for Furloughed Employees
~ Messages of Hope CommUNITY Rocks Project


PPE Distribution

Partnering to Support a range of community-based
​CommUNITY Relief & Resiliency Efforts
:

Donate Here

Right Relations Fund ​for Navajo Nation 
Supporting Resiliency and Well-being for Indigenous and Navajo Community ​members
​facilitated by Weyakpa Najin Win (Woman Stands Shining - Pat McCabe). Learn More
Donate Here

Ke' InfoShop
"K’é Bei Nihi Dziil - Through Kinship We Are Strong."
K'é Infoshop in Window Rock is partnering with the following organizations to build an autonomous yet effective distribution system to provide food and other essential items to families affected by COVID-19:
​
Indigenous Mutual Aid Fund
Kinlani Mutual Aid
​Linktree of Indigenous Mutual Aid Groups
Navajo & Hopi Solidarity
Taalaa Hooghan Infoshop
The Red Nation
Rez Refuge
Donate Here

La Liga Collaboration

Collective
​Medicine

CLN partnered with La Liga and Navajo Water Warriors to provide water containers and water
​to Dine' families in need.
COVID Caregivers Support Fund
CLN teamed with La Liga and Christus St. Vincent Hospital Foundation to provide direct financial support to COVID Caregivers, including essential and front-line workers.
Learning
​Pods

CLN teamed with La Liga to support community-based learning pods in New Mexico and the Pacific Northwest including
​Greer Mount in Santa Fe. 

Tonic
​for the Times

CLN interns provided creative support for the Tonic for the Times fundraiser, social media, and website development.

Spread Some Sunshine Fund

CLN partnered with the City of Santa Fe to collect and distribute donations to furloughed workers in need.
Learn More

"On March 11, 2020, the Navajo Nation Commission on Emergency Management declared a public health state of emergency for the Navajo Nation due to the confirmation of the novel coronavirus ("COVID-19") in regional areas surrounding the Navajo Nation.​" Visit this website for COVID-19 updates from Navajo Nation
Why is the Navajo Nation hit hard by COVID-19?
​

​From K'e Infoshop: "Only 60% of households within the Navajo reservation have running water, the remaining 40% must haul water many miles for their families and livestock. Resource extraction and exploitation have depleted much of our direct water sources (aquifers, natural springs, rivers, lakes, etc.) and devastated our watersheds (e.g. irradiated from over 500 abandoned uranium mines). The lives, lands, and natural rights of Diné and Hopi people have been sacrificed so the capitalist economy of the Southwest U.S. may thrive. Without coal mined from Dzixl Yizhiin (Black Mesa, Arizona) by Diné and Hopi people to power the Central Arizona Project canal system, settlements known as Phoenix, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and other abominably unnatural metropolises in the Southwest would not exist.

The Navajo Nation reservation/interment camp is about 27,000 square miles in size with only 13 grocery stores to feed over 244,000 people. There are also 10 continously understaffed, underequipped, and underfunded hospitals within the Navajo Nation. Almost one-third of homes within the Navajo Nation lack electricity, internet, and cell services. Most of these same households live on 10 gallons of water a day, whereas the average American home uses 100 gallons. The socio-economic conditions of life on a reservation exacerbates the high mortality rate of diseases among Indigenous people due to extremely limited access to clean water, unpolluted land, and fresh organic foods. The crumbling infrastructure of roads, pipes, and communication makes the situation ripe for a pandemic breakout.

All Indigenous nations have been subjected to the same abuse and immiseration created by U.S. policies to deny Indigenous people their ability to truly determine their own futures. By outsourcing our kinship to inhuman structures, we have erased any semblance of self-determination for the false promises of peace. This does not mean we are looking to "go back" to pre-contact with European settlers, we are striving to recenter our purpose of upholding healthy and dignified lives for all based on kinship with human and non-human relatives".


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    • Internet Society New Mexico Chapter
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      • Guadalupe Street Reconstruction
    • Jicarilla Apache Youth FilmFest
    • LISTO for Teachers
    • Native Artists Panel
    • Film Prize Jr NM
    • Pandemic Response >
      • CommUNITY Relief
      • PPE Donations
      • Right Relations Fund
      • Spread Some Sunshine
      • ITDRC Project Connect
      • commUNITY rocks
      • Pandemic Projects Spotlight
    • SWAIA Project
    • Pueblo Connect
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    • SEED: Climate Change Resilience
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