The St. Michael Indian School Family Adoption Project is now underway for 2010. St. Joan of Arc families have supported this effort for the past eight years. Each year, SJA families and members of the surrounding community, adopt hundreds of Navajo families from the St. Michael and St. Mary communities. Every family is in need of food, warm articles of clothing and gifts especially for the children. All these articles are collected over the Thanksgiving weekend and delivered to St. Michael, Arizona and Tohatchi, New Mexico, during the first weekend of December, just in time for Christmas.
This project is coordinated by the members of a Small Christian Community, but at this time of year we need the help of many volunteers and we need financial assistance. The financial assistance is for providing gifts for those families not adopted, for those families who, although adopted, their gifts did not arrive in time for processing and shipment, and for food/travel expenses of the team.
The following are the key dates for the project this year: