{"id":12918,"date":"2021-04-23T14:27:41","date_gmt":"2021-04-23T18:27:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/covid19\/?p=12918"},"modified":"2021-04-23T14:44:15","modified_gmt":"2021-04-23T18:44:15","slug":"navajo-hopi-families-covid-19-relief-fund-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/covid19\/2021\/04\/23\/navajo-hopi-families-covid-19-relief-fund-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Navajo & Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Colin Tsosie. Photo courtesy Navajo & Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief Fund<\/p><\/div>\n

For Immediate Release – April 22, 2021<\/p>\n

Navajo<\/span> Marine Leads COVID-19 Direct Relief Effort to Successful Completion<\/h3>\n

CH’\u00cdHOOTSOO\u00cd, DIN\u00c9TAH, (WINDOW ROCK, NAVAJO<\/span> NATION)<\/strong> – For Navajo<\/span> Marine Colin Tsosie, helping lead the Navajo<\/span> & Hopi Families COVID-19 Relief<\/a> Fund\u2019s Chinle distribution team was a way he could help protect his elders and those affected by the pandemic. <\/p>\n

Since April 2020, Tsosie and his staff of ten have been working long hours, organizing staging areas for food distributions, receiving and packaging food and cleaning supplies, and conducting up to four distributions in one day across the Central Agency region of the Navajo<\/span> Nation. <\/p>\n

For all his effort, Tsosie said he feels rewarded by being able to help those in need.<\/p>\n

\u201cPersonally, my crew, we\u2019d do over 120 hours every two weeks. Some weeks were above that. We\u2019ve been doing this for a year and it’s easy to get burned out,\u201d Tsosie said. \u201cBut having gone out to some remote areas and seeing the situations our people are living in, I feel a lot better about what I\u2019m doing and it keeps me pushing forward.\u201d <\/p>\n