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Dec 7, 2006

The ONE Spirit Bed Program

Picture above is the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1968.

Today conditions have become worse due to population increases......

"The housing shortage on the Pine Ridge Reservation is so severe that only 16 people living in a four bedroom house is considered lucky. Next door there are 23 people living in a three bedroom house."

Rapid City Journal


http://nativeprogress.org/content/view/31/50/


Early morning unloading of the truckload of beds
ONE Spirit Bed Program provides beds for American Indian people, especially children and elders living on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

We want to see that every person there has a bed to sleep in and adequate bedding to be warm in the subzero temperatures of a South Dakota winter. We hope that our efforts in raising money for beds and bedding can provide Native People in our own country with at least a small taste of the comforts that most of us take for granted as the basics. We are enormously blessed in comparison, and with blessings comes the responsibility to share! Please help us achieve this goal one person, one family, one bed at a time; it is one of the most compassionate things you can do! All of us in ONE Spirit thank you for helping!

The Need for Beds


Residents loading beds to take home after the big truckload delivery.
Next to housing and food, probably the most needed item in everyday American Indian reservation family life is a comfortable and warm place to sleep.

On the Pine Ridge Reservation almost all homes have at least one person, and sometimes entire families, sleeping on the floor. Floors are hard and uncomfortable for sleeping, especially for the elders, and get very cold in winter.

In warm weather family members, especially children, suffer insect bites, some from the brown recluse spider. The problem is even worse in homes shared by extended families where numerous people may sleep on the basement floor.


What We Do

We buy beds and deliver them to homes where they are needed. We also work in cooperation with Re-Member an organization on the reservation that builds bunk beds for kids. Each bed that we deliver consists of a frame, a box spring, and a decent quality mattress. Bedding includes a sheet and pillow case set, a pillow, and at least one blanket. Each delivery includes extermination of bed bugs, if necessary.


Feedback: Some Bed Stories

One of the first beds delivered as part of this program was to an elderly woman who was sleeping on the basement floor in the home of her grandchildren. When the bed was delivered, the woman started crying and said that she had never had her own bed before, in all of her 80 years on this planet!


Please consider helping to provide a warm place to sleep for children and elders. Contact us at:
ONE Spirit Bed Program

Myrna Fox

phaedrus@access.mountain.net

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Kim Ireland (67)
Friday December 8, 2006, 12:10 am
Do they Homes for Humanity - where builders and the people who the house is for erect a new house for them free or what about that guy Ty who does the programme Extreme Makeover if someone sent an application in they could get some needed help it might only be a couple of new houses but it could be a start why does the government allow this sort of thing they stole their tribal lands and dump them its appaling

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