Love has no color
Rekindle Me is proud and honored to support the Love has no color initiative.
Started in 2005, Love has no color has been bringing love, joy, and hope to the kids living in poverty and instability at the Fort Peck reservation in Poplar, Montana.
Love has no color is a group dedicated to helping Indigenous kids living in third world conditions. This group focuses on helping the people to help themselves rather than just being a charity or a handout. The goal is to cultivate hope, facilitate self-esteem building activities, and be a reminder of life beyond the reservation. The suicide rate for these children is one of the highest anywhere in this country. LHNC brings awareness to the wretched conditions endured.
Twice a year, Rekindle Me joins with a group of health and wellness practitioners who travel from all across North America to dedicate a few days of service to the people of Fort Peck; once during the summer for "Boot Camp" and once in December for "Christmas in Fort Peck".
It may come as a surprise to some, but kids live in third world conditions right here in our country. Hideous living statistics in the Fort Peck community include crime, drugs, alcohol, child abuse, teen pregnancy, domestic violence, poverty, disease, unemployment, and undernourishment that we would expect in turbulent places around the globe like Zimbabwe, Somalia, Gambia, etc.
As North-Americans, we don't have to look very far to find third world conditions; poverty is alive and well not far from home, and nowhere is it more obvious than in these communities. Here are just a few statistics of this and similar communities that very few people are aware of:
Highest suicide rate (10x national average)
Life expectancy, disease, poverty of a third world country
Disease rates unrivaled in the country (diabetes is 4x national average)
40% high school dropout rate
Crime, drugs and alcohol abuse that starts in middle school
75% unemployment
Through programs like Boot Camp and Christmas in Fort Peck, LHNC is ultimately about ending the hopelessness through health. Using chiropractic and holistic care, the supporters of LHNC want to change the paradigm to transform hopelessness to hopefulness.
In the 14 years of service, Love Has No Color has raised over $285,000, filled over 6,200 backpacks with school supplies and donated over 250,000 gifts to the Fort Peck reservation.
At its core is a common thread that unites all of us – do the right thing, especially for people who are oppressed. It has a feeling of ‘rightfulness’, of honour, and people’s usual response is ‘how can I get involved’?
