The Navajo Nation’s domestic violence shelters finally got the meeting with Division of Social Services higher-ups they’ve been pressing for on Monday, but instead of solutions to their delayed funding problem, they got yet another couple of roadblocks thrown at them.
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Radmilla Cody had already been thinking about the plight of domestic abuse victims during the COVID-19 pandemic when she read an article in the Navajo Times about the funding for the Nation’s domestic violence shelters being delayed for eight months.
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Less than a week after an article appeared in the Navajo Times detailing the plight of an elderly Indian Wells couple living in a ramshackle house with no way to get to the grocery store or chapter house other than walking, it was a much different scene.
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When Roxanna Yazzie gets home after a long workday, she changes her clothes outside the back door, an entryway organized like a hospital undressing area, because she cannot risk contaminating the house.
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As Laverne Joe of Klagetoh was driving home from helping with a food delivery in Grey Mountain, Arizona, last Wednesday, she started to wonder whether, in spite of all the government-, church- and nonprofit-sponsored food and water distributions on the Navajo Nation in response to the pandemic, there were still people slipping through the cracks.
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