Make Tied Fleece Blankets for Navajo School Children
Making tied fleece blankets for Navajo elementary school children who board at school during the week is a great family project anytime, but especially now as we are staying at home. Last year we had requests for over 100 blankets. Making them now will have us prepared for next school year. Click here for more information.
Making tied fleece blankets for Navajo elementary school children who board at school during the week is a great family project anytime, but especially now as we are staying at home. Last year we had requests for over 100 blankets. Making them now will have us prepared for next school year. Click here for more information.
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ANA - Who We Are - 3:34
ANA - Nursing Program - 3:03
ANA - Full Story - 8:24
Three videos about ANA are now available:
ANA - Who We Are - 3:34
ANA - Nursing Program - 3:03
ANA - Full Story - 8:24
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100% of all designated donations to ANA go directly to specified programs. Without a staff to support or an office to fund, 95% of all undirected donations go to ANA's most needed programs. You may donate here. Thank you!
James Paccioretti receiving the Bill and Connie Eastburn Founders Award from Connie Eastburn.
ANA's 28th Anniversary Garden Party
was a great success!
Guests at ANA's August 17 Garden Party enjoyed a lovely afternoon at Bev and Jeff Fulgham's where they were entertained with music by Eric Mintel and Jack Hegyi and Native American flutist Jack Darnell. (see slide show from the event below). A highlight of the afternoon was the presentation of the Bill and Connie Eastburn Founders Award, given this year to James Paccioretti for his incredible contribution to ANA through his fabulous dinners, and Ina Burmeister, from Western Health Foundation in Gallup, NM and long-time partner and friend to ANA. Guests were treated to delectable hors d'oeuvres by Seedlings and Sage and signature drinks made by HopsScotch in Doylestown.
was a great success!
Guests at ANA's August 17 Garden Party enjoyed a lovely afternoon at Bev and Jeff Fulgham's where they were entertained with music by Eric Mintel and Jack Hegyi and Native American flutist Jack Darnell. (see slide show from the event below). A highlight of the afternoon was the presentation of the Bill and Connie Eastburn Founders Award, given this year to James Paccioretti for his incredible contribution to ANA through his fabulous dinners, and Ina Burmeister, from Western Health Foundation in Gallup, NM and long-time partner and friend to ANA. Guests were treated to delectable hors d'oeuvres by Seedlings and Sage and signature drinks made by HopsScotch in Doylestown.
 Students outside Einstein Medical Center-Montgomery with Mr. Einstein!
Expanding
Horizons in Nursing ANA’s Expanding Horizons in Nursing program was initiated in 2014 and to date has hosted 32 nursing students from the University of New Mexico – Gallup. Their full week of focused experiences is designed to support, energize and enlighten their careers. On May 18, six Navajo and Zuni nursing students and their instructor traveled to Doylestown to observe medical procedures at Einstein Medical Center - Montgomery and Doylestown Hospital. For the third year, in cooperation with Central Bucks School District the students met with Central Bucks school nurses for an informative afternoon learning what school nursing entails. With no school nurses on the Navajo reservation, the nursing students were amazed at how important school nursing is! New this year: each student spent a day shadowing a school nurse in six of the District’s elementary, middle, and high schools. Thank you to the nurses and staff of the Central Bucks School District for helping to give these students another unique opportunity to learn. 
ANA's Garden Party was voted one of the best summer events in 2017!
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Spring Veterinarian Clinic in Zuni
This April saw another very successful veterinary clinic trip to the Zuni reservation and Kayenta on the Navajo reservation. The veterinarians and veterinarian students spayed and neutered over 150 dogs and cats, and vaccinated well over 300 dogs and cats. The team wormed and vaccinated over 1,000 sheep, vaccinated 20 horses and gelded a few of those. The veterinary students rotated through all the different disciplines and were extremely happy with the program, especially the cultural aspects. While at Zuni, the team witnessed two different ceremonial dances and visited a renowned sculptor in his home and studio. 
New Veterinary Clinic in Zuni
Great progress is being made on the construction of the Veterinarian Clinic on the Zuni Reservation. This self-sustainable off-grid building will provide its own electricity, harvest rain water for washing and drinking, and treat its own sewage. The building will stay at a comfortable temperature year-round using the principles of thermal mass. Photo shows windows after they were installed and the tires which are massed around the outside of the building to create the thermal mass. Images from the 2019 Garden Party Courtesy of Julie Toner and Jeff Toner |