Lale Sewing & Beading Project
Lale Metzinger (maiden name: Lale Gurel) was a very generous young woman who would always help when help was needed. She never thought of herself but always of the others first. She was a sundancer, worked for Greenpeace International and lived in Switzerland during her last two years. After she died of cancer at the age of only 33 in April 2006 her friends proposed to set up a memorial fund. Please join us in sponsoring a new sewing and beading program to help incarcerated Lakota youth. Lale's friends and husband have come together to create this program and to carry her love of young people to incarcerated youth on the reservation.
We are asking for financial donations - can you help us? We need to raise another $500 to purchase sewing and beading supplies for this very special program at the Juvenile Detention Center (JDC) in Mission, SD. Your donation will enable us to purchase fabric, beads, special items for the making of traditional Lakota dance regalia, sewing and beading tools, and books on art, history and technique. Also needed for this project are current books on Lakota beading, needle nose pliers, calico cotton, thread, needles, sewing scissors, iron and ironing board, beads and beading thread.
Pathways to Spirit
Pathways to Spirit is a non-profit, all volunteer organization dedicated to the provision of material assistance to and cultural preservation of Native Americans on the reservations of South Dakota and along the Front Range of Colorado.