UPDATE:

We are thankful for the community's ongoing support!

We have a name for our workforce development program where individuals can start as an unpaid volunteer, then move towards a stipend contract worker, and later a full time employee.

O’babenimaawaan, it means they care for them. Any funds raised support the stipend contract workers who provide support to the unsheltered relatives during breakfast meal program, Tuesday resource connect and warming center.

Stipend contract workers are drug and alcohol free and on a path of sobriety and recovery. Many of our stipend contract workers have once been unsheltered and were once in active addiction. The helpers need help as they continue to improve the quality of life for the unsheltered relatives.

We are thankful for the communities support.

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While ICE terrorizes Minneapolis, detaining Native people who are citizens of this land since time immemorial, MIWRC is holding the line.

The Minnesota Indian Women's Resource Center warming shelter is open. But keeping it open costs money. They need $45,000 to maintain operations as this crisis continues.

This week: → One person died from exposure → Four Oglala Sioux tribal members were detained by ICE → Renee Good was killed by an ICE agent → Temps are plunging to dangerous, deadly levels

Our people cannot shelter safely outside. MIWRC offers culturally grounded, low-barrier sanctuary in the heart of the Phillips neighborhood.

Beyond warmth, food, and safety, MIWRC staff will help guests obtain tribal IDs and documentation. Right now, that paperwork can be the difference between freedom and detention.

This is about survival. This is about sovereignty. This is about taking care of our own when the government won't.

Donate now: https://bit.ly/Healinglight

Every dollar keeps the doors open. Share widely.

STILL URGENT: We need additional support to support the helpers, those who assist our unsheltered relatives.