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First Project | Pine Ridge Indian Reservation

DONATE TODAY: www.inourhands.love Instagram: @inourhands.love Twitter: @inourhands_love Facebook:   / inourhands.l.  . LinkedIn: inourhands.love inourhands.love has officially partnered with the Oglala Lakota (Sioux) Nation of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. Their story is a paradigm of the hardships facing many American Indian tribes, but it is also representative of the resilience and hope that exists in community and innovation. The Oglala Lakota faces many of the same economic challenges as other American Indian nations across the country. As Henry Red Cloud states in the video above, unemployment on the Pine Ridge Reservation, which has a population of 40,000, has reached a harrowing 86%. The median income of those who are employed is between $2,600-$3,500 a year, which means that 97% of the population lives below the federal poverty line. Like their neighbors, the Standing Rock Sioux, the Oglala Lakota deal with the irony of pipelines running through their sovereign land, which the United States uses to transport oil that, eventually, American Indians are forced to buy back in the form of petroleum. By providing the Oglala Lakota Nation with a means of producing their own energy and jobs, inourhands.love helps keep that money on the reservation. Working with Lakota Solar Enterprises (LSE) and the Red Cloud Renewable Energy Center (RCREC), inourhands.love aims to fund the installation of solar panels on Pine Ridge, providing clean and affordable energy to a region where nearly 40% of homes lack electricity. inourhands.love believes that energy should be equitable and that all communities – and the individuals that comprise them – should have the agency to change and improve. For Native American Nations, the difficulties extend one step further; they are sovereign nations surrounded by a foreign government over which they have limited (or no) control but on which they are forced to depend for basic resources. While the past is marked by turmoil and injustice, there is hope, going forward, to create a brighter future, not only for disadvantaged communities, but for the world that we all share. We’ve said this before and we’ll say it again: the most powerful gift is that of freedom; the ability to decide for oneself how the future will be. YOU have the power to return the freedom that some communities have lost to forces beyond their control. By donating to inourhands.love, you directly contribute to transitioning communities like the Oglala Lakota Nation towards energy independence. Not only does your dollar create healthier and happier communities, it helps people reclaim their own destinies.