From the newsletter of Forest Floor, a local nature school:
We are organizing a caravan of vehicles to drive to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in ND to deliver much needed winter supplies to the water protectors there. We will additionally stay on site for approx. one week to assist in any way we can.
The caravan is leaving Asheville no later than Monday Nov. 7 (less than a week from now), and returning home somtime around Nov. 18.
Forest Floor is connected with a much larger alliance of Nature-Connection schools across North America who are working together to best identify and provide for specific needs at Standing Rock. This highly coordinated alliance allows us to be much more effective in serving the needs of the water protectors than if we were acting as a single unit.
Our alliance has trusted people in camp now who are assessing needs and communicating that information back to a central hub. All the various schools and groups planning trips to Standing Rock (such as ours) have also been communicating with this central hub, informing them of our capacity to acquire and deliver supplies, our dates of arriving in camp, etc. The result is that Forest Floor will be informed of who specifically needs what supplies, and where exactly to deliver the supplies once we’ve arrived. This will exponentially increase the positive impact we can have at camp.
We are now collecting monetary donations to put towards this effort. All donations will go to:
- helping cover travel expenses (mainly gas to deliver both supplies and people/helpers to the camp)
- purchasing supplies and equipment for the camp, such as winter shelters, wood stoves, solar power systems, and hard-to-find winter clothing
- specific needs that are identified once arrived, such as eyeglasses or dental care for elders, specific food items for the kitchen, construction supplies, etc.
To donate, please visit our Go Fund Me campaign.
We will also be collecting physical donations of specific high need items. We’ll very soon post lists of what these items are and where you can deliver them.
If you are personally feeling a strong call to go to Standing Rock, contact Clint Corley (contact@ontheforestfloor.org) directly for details on how to join the caravan.
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