The girls are in their final stages of containment and disinfection bags. They thought they would only be able to provide 50 bags but were able to put together another 50 bags, this time for the communities of our Hopi neighbors in 1st and 2nd mesa. Mom, Tia and auntie Lisa did a Turn around trip to drop off the bags. There are 12 different Hopi communities. Hopi families live in close knit communities, they cannot always "physical distance" because their homes are built to support community. Village life is very different from urban lives where you can stay in your home away from others, Hopi families must live in close quarters to support their community. If there is an outbreak, they are very vunerable due to proximity. Our grandmother, Arlene sprung into action and we made connections with a Hopi aid group who needs help, Sinmuy-Amungem-For-the-People. Please consider helping them, as well.

After talking to the girls and their grandma, Arlene we decided to let them go up to the Navajo Reservation so they could see the dispersement and learn about traditional learnings from their Grandma Arlene and Great Grandma Mary.
During this time, they learned about the Navajo Sage medicine and the sacred teachings of living off the land.
They met many grandparents from far away who were beyond grateful for all the items in the bags. Many people became emotional that someone was thinking of them from such far away places like Tucson.
They were able to meet up with their two other drivers so they could discuss how to deliver the bags at an appropriate distance.
One of Ari's take aways was that people need to stay "Two sheeps away from each other." That was an actual model of 6 feet away.

Total Donations: $2,365
The girls are getting better and better at streamlining their process of setting up bags. They spent time again to organize the bags they have in their possession to completion.
The hardest part of the bags is getting the masks divided and into the bags. Each bag gets 4 masks and we try to do it in the most safe way possible with the girls wearing masks and gloves in open air. It gets very hot and they can only get a few done a day. We talked about going into my new empty classroom while I'm moving items for them to work alone and in a cooler area that has been disinfected.
Leia also took out her labeler and spent time on the couch while watching her shows to print labels for the hand santizers that we had to bottle ourselves.
They have completed 94 physical bags and their grandma will be coming up to take the next 50-60 bags and then come up for the final bags in 2 weeks.
Stay tuned for what they decide to do at a larger level with their remaining funds.

Total cash donations: $2,180

The biggest development has become Leia creating her Navajo images for mask wearing. For our elders who are unable to read in both Navajo and English the picture provide clear instructions to wear the mask. The images are either wearing traditional hair buns or braids. Leia used the CDC instructions for mask wearing as her guide.

The girls spent an early morning bagging more masks. They also put together a standard volunteer distribution kit:
The kit includes 10 masks, 1 bottle of hand santizer, 1 container of disinfectant wipes. The girls also included gas cards and money for the travel to distance areas.

One of the hardest parts of containment is finding people who know where all the people live in the most remote areas. We have enlisted 3 experts in their areas to identify people who will need the supplies. One of out volunteers made it clear that her people on her route were people who did not have access to vehicles and the internet. These individuals may not be able to access the other donations in major cities.

The workload has been a running commentary between the girls. They have noted that it takes lots of time to make sure all the bags are ready to go and finding a rhythm is tough for them to get all items ready to go.

Current biggest need: Hand Santizers, bottle disinfectant, disinfectant wipes and face masks.

Total donations: $1,720

The Begay mom wasn't able to go out yesterday so the girls dominated today.
Ari woke up early to get into Walmart to pick up more items to start the new set of 30 bags. She was able to pick up bottled water, bottles for disinfectatant and asprin for when people get sent home with symptoms.

We had some rough news as our our grandma was told to self quarentine(14 days) since she may have worked with a person that was tested positive.

This only fueled the girls to go hard today. They broke apart the jobs. One went to ask the last Trader Joe's to donate 10 bags for our project. As a little 7 year old, she was able to secure the 10 bags for free! THANK YOU TRADER JOE'S of TUCSON! Every one of them donated their bags.
Then, Leia went to two Walmarts to get meats, toilet paper, water and trigger sprays for the bags.

We had 3 physical donations of items and cash. Thank you, Ms. Soto, Flores, Myrna and Esther for your donations.

The girls budgeted $50 per driver to help with the gas from their Navajo Nation drivers. The drivers have compiled lists for their areas of people who need them the most. We have also identified one family who is in extreme need who have already lost an entire famliy unit to the virus. Helping those families with disinfectant and masks is top priority.

Our first 30-40 bags will head down to Tselani and surrounding areas for first responders and essential workers who are having difficulty securing disinfectants. They will also support elders who are over 70 years of age.

From the financial perspective, the girls have enough to meet the needs of 100 families.

Thank you so much for continued support. They work everyday learning about money, managing resources and documenting their journey. They haven't seen the personal responses, yet and are running on hope.

Total donations equal $1, 440.

Today, we were on a mission to collect another 10 bags from Trader Joe's. The north location also donated our bags. We also got a gift of bags from Janet A.
With physical donations, we were able to put together all 50 bags.
We spent the afternoon in our garage mixing and setting up the disinfectant sprays.
The girls made some headway in closing up the masks but it got very hot for us and we wanted to minimize contamination by wearing masks, disinfecting our surfaces, enclosing the masks in ziploc bags and changing our gloves in intervals. They will work on this again tomorrow.
They finally got lots of clear space in the house and worked for 2 hours putting together the bags. They were very surprised that they were able to complete 50 bags.
Tomorrow, their goal is to:
1) Work on mask packing
2) Purchase final items for the 50
3) Budget a gas card for their delivery volunteer
4) Set up a new goal based on the amount they have in cash.
5) Prepare a presentation for Girl Scouts of Southern Arizona's Board Meeting.
6) Begin putting together their learning journal.

What you can still do:
We will continue to collect donations of physical items and money until June 27th.
-Right now we need lots of shopping bags that you get when you go the store. We use them to wrap up the food and disinfect from leaking. We will spray them down for safety.
-We also need hand sanitizers, donated Trader Joe's or reusable bags that are roughly large enough to hold our items.
- Since we met our need for 50 bags, we are now open to all donations again, we are back to needing all items.