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star-24px 2020 AARP Community Challenge Grantee

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This grant will help ensure Navajo elders can age in place while honoring their traditional lifestyle by providing a food certificate program and supply deliveries that include vital medical supplies and firewood.

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Distributing food boxes to elders.
Native elder recipient of food certificate voucher.
Native elder with new pile of firewood.

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