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• Due to severe weather, fire wood shortages and lack of electricity, many Navajo are forced to face increased risks of illness, asthma, frostbite and cold-induced death. • Poverty on Indian Reservations includes homes without ovens and children with almost no clothes--regardless of season. • Thousands of Native American children cry themselves to sleep every night, just because they are hungry. • Average family incomes are far below poverty levels. • Deadly diseases--including TB and diabetes--are common. • Native American teen suicides run over four times the national average. • Thousands of youngsters have little food, no protection from summer's heat or winter's cold, and no hope. • Child abuse and spousal abuse are almost epidemic. • Native American youngsters face a bleak future without food, medical care or hope. NAER provides these essentials, so Indian children will be more productive citizens for our country and their tribes. |
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