REGIONAL / NATIONAL OUTREACH

Blackfeet Reservation, Montana, USA

Indian Health Services Dental Clinic ~

Compassion 4 Kids supports the Blackfeet dental clinic through our Care Package shipment program.  C4K provides the clinic with books for the children’s waiting room as well as stuffed toys which serve as incentives for the children’s families to bring them to the clinic for dental care.  C4K’s donated items also support the clinic’s annual Cleft/Craniofacial program.

Eastern Navajo Reservation, New Mexico, USA

St. Bonaventure Indian Mission & School

The Navajo Nation covers an area of 27,000 square miles in three southwestern states (New Mexico, Arizona and Utah) and is larger than the state of West Virginia.  Over 200,000 people make up the Navajo Nation, and poverty is pervasive. Unemployment is approximately 45 percent and opportunities are limited. The part of the Eastern Navajo Reservation which St. Bonaventure Mission serves is at the very bottom of the economic ladder of the Navajo Nation. 

St. Bonaventure Indian Mission and School is a private, Catholic agency providing the people of the Eastern Navajo Reservation the opportunity to develop self-sufficiency through education, employment, and outreach services that make available food, water and clothing and other social services.  St. Bonaventure is completely dependent upon donations from individuals and organizations such as C4K.

Compassion 4 Kids provides the students of St. Bonaventure with classroom and “free reading” books and reference materials; a myriad of sporting and physical education equipment; and many needed school supplies and classroom equipment items.  C4K also supports St. Bonaventure’s Navajo home repair outreach program through significant contributions of construction supplies such as a generator, electric table saws, and a myriad of power and hand tools.  C4K funds have supported general operating expenses as well as a water truck to deliver clean drinking water to remote Navajo homes on the Reservation.

C4K volunteers, through our Humanitarian Missions Program, travel to New Mexico to support St. Bonaventure’s summer school program.  C4K volunteer activities and efforts focus on literacy acquisition, one of the major concerns for these children.  Additional activities, such as arts & crafts and field trips, focus on the social and cultural development of the children. In addition, C4K construction teams repair homes in remote areas of the Reservation and assist with renovation of used mobile homes to house homeless Navajo families.

Orange County, Indiana, USA

New Project TBA in 2006!