Backpacks For Pine Ridge

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Backpacks for Pine Ridge is working to provide backpacks and school supplies to America's poorest children on the Pine Ridge Reservation.

The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is one of the most beautiful places in America. It is also one of the poorest places in America. The median income on the reservation is just $3,500 a year. The unemployment rate is a shocking 85%. Sadly, it is the children and teenagers who are the most vulnerable victims of such poverty. Among schools on the Pine Ridge Reservation, the drop-out rate is 70%.

Since 2004 we have been going to the Pine Ridge Reservation and delivering new backpacks filled with school supplies to the children in one village on the Reservation. In 2007 we began to expand our efforts and in the summer of 2008 will be delivering backpacks and school supplies to three villages. We have a goal of being able to expand the backpack project and to be able to provide a backpack filled with school supplies to as many children on the reservation as possible. Ultimately, we would like to be able to provide a new backpack and school supplies to every child on the Reservation.

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