Eaton Workshop is working with an emergency coalition of the Indigenous Environmental Network, Movement Rights, T.E.J.A.S., Idle No More - SF Bay, Amazon Watch, and Eaton Workshop have come together to raise funds to get COVID-19 Emergency PPE (Personal Protection Equipment) Masks and Supplies to Native Nations’ Medics and Communities.
Native nations are swiftly being hit by the coronavirus; one of the communities this effort will serve, the Navajo Nation, has a higher infection rate per capita than any state other than NY and NJ. The infection and death rate on the Navajo Nation alone is 10 times higher than the state of Arizona, despite the fact that the tribe reported its first case of Coronavirus 51 days after Arizona. This scenario is playing out all across Indian Country.
Right now, we’re responding to an urgent request from Chief Ninawa, President of the Huni Kui People’s Federation of the Brazilian Amazon, who is asking for 15,000 PPE masks and sanitation supplies to save his people from extinction. The pandemic is devastating Indigenous communities across the world, who safeguard 80% of the world’s biodiversity, including the Amazon, the lungs of Mother Earth.
We can’t do it without you. Help us raise $200,000 to provide Native American communities and medical staff personal protection equipment (PPE) including N95, KN95 and surgical masks, gowns, gloves, medical-grade disinfectant liquids and wipes, medical equipment, and other community needs. Every dollar we raise will go to those most in need. With our elders, the living bearers of our cultures and histories, at highest risk, Indian Country has so much at stake in this moment.
Please make a life-saving donation today.