Lana Konda the Art Whisperer

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Math Camp for Lakota Girls

Eight years ago an idea was whispered to my heart to start a math camp for girls here on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. This year for the 8th annual camp, my husband, Keith Janis, and I are dreaming big to bring 20 Lakota girls ages 10-12 along with 10 Lakota youth volunteers to their sacred Black Hills for a week of camping, culture, math, buffalo, swimming, and so much more! My name is Jennifer Janis and I am a mom of 6 and a math/science teacher at Little Wound Middle School.

Let’s lift these beautiful Lakota Girls up high this year and gift to them the best memories of their life. Together we can do it for them and for God. We have received the word from Borderlands Spiritual and Educational Center this morning that we will need to raise 3,500 dollars for use of their facilities for this years summer enrichment camp for our beautiful Lakota Wincincala’s this July 23-29 at Pe'Sla in the Sacred Black Hills. Please share this post and contribute what you can towards this years camp. Pe’Sla is fundamental in Lakota History to women–it’s there where the seven sisters spirits were raised up into the heavens by the Star Maiden at the time this sacred site got it’s namesake. 

Three years ago, my dog went viral on Imgur and Reddit, thanks to this picture I took right after she’d yanked down a post from the front of our house with her bare strength.

But like the image above says, this is not a good post.

That dog above, the one that made so many people laugh, her name is Eva, and she’s my 7-year-old lab. She was just diagnosed with canine lymphoma.

Without chemo, she only has 3 months left with us. But her oncologist has given her a good prognosis with chemotherapy. She could live to see her 9th, 10th, and even 11th birthday.

Which means more years of this happy, ridiculous puppy.

The price to extend her life? $8500.

I nearly died when I saw the number. I’m paying off 4 student loans right now, and my parents are in insurmountable debt. I thought, this is it, we’re screwed. In between crying spells and anxiety attacks, I realized what my choices were: give up and let Eva go in the next 3 months, or crowdfund my ass off.

Internet: you’ve done it before, now I’m begging you, do it again. Spread Eva like wildfire. She deserves a second chance. She deserves the extra time, and all the fun and happiness she’ll have in that time.

Here is the link to her gofundme.