Backpacks for Pine Ridge Fund

The Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota has been the poorest place in America with a median income of just $3500.00 a year. The school drop out rate is soaring at an estimated 70% and the schools on the Reservation fall into the bottom 10% of funding.

Since 2004 Backpacks For Pine Ridge has been providing new backpacks filled with school supplies to one village on the Reservation. In 2008 we expanded our efforts to provide backpacks and school supplies to the children in three villages. Our long-range goal is to be able to give every child on the Reservation a new backpack and school supplies each year.

Giving a child on the Reservation school supplies not only provides them with much needed equipment for school but it gives them hope for a future.