Lakota Healthy Start Building Campaign-Indie GoGo

indiegogo.com/projects/268593/x/49413 "Help Save Lakota Babies' Lives"

Facebook: Lakota Healthy Start
Twitter: @LakotaHealthySt

The highest infant mortality rate (IMR) in the country is on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, home to the Oglala Lakota. 13 babies die out of every 1000 live births.

Healthy Start is a program that lowers the IMR to just 5 deaths per 1000 live births, below the USA national average of 7 deaths per 1000 live births.

The Healthy Start Program was forced to leave their offices due to high levels of asbestos. What was given to them as a replacement office was a mold-infested trailer with holes in the roof.
The Healthy Start Building Campaign Team is committed to building a culturally-relevant, sustainable, off-the-grid building that will serve as an icon of hope where the unemployment is as high as 85%.

We hope that you will join us on Indie GoGo and not only donate, but help spread the world about this issue.

Thank you, Kitty Farmer for the Healthy Start Building Campaign Team - Ritch, Michael, Eric, Henry, Donald, Roberta, Lacey and Mac.

Photo credit: Deanne Fitzmaurice (deannefitzmaurice.com)

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