Across the country, rising food costs and economic strain are hitting tribal nations hardest, where poverty and unemployment already run high.
Native families are having a difficult time putting food on the table.
In Nevada, food bank deliveries have been canceled, cutting off essential support to the Walker River Paiute Tribe. And in Oklahoma, tribal food programs are suffering after the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that it was cancelling the Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement Program (LFPA), leaving two food banks that serve the Cherokee Nation scrambling.
For native families, already facing food insecurity at rates over 25%, and even higher in rural areas, the news is nothing short of devastating.
We must act now.
Over the next two weeks, we are rushing nearly 1,000 emergency food boxes, each enough to feed a family of four for a week, to these tribal communities.
- 1 full pallet of food boxes is being delivered to the Walker River Paiute Tribe.
- In the Cherokee Nation, we are delivering 400 dry food boxes and 400 frozen boxes, which our partner, Muldrow Cherokee Community, will distribute directly.
That’s almost 1000 boxes in the next two weeks alone, by early May.
Each dry food box costs $36, and each frozen box, packed with essential proteins, costs $42.50. Every box feeds a family of four for a week.
That means we need to raise over $34,424 in just 14 days.
You can make a difference to tribal families today.
We urgently need your support to rush nearly 1,000 food boxes to these two native communities in the next two weeks. Countless more will likely be facing the same need in the weeks to follow.
Please don’t wait. Donate today. Don’t let these families suffer a minute longer than they need to.
