WE HAVE RAISED $46.195.00
THANK YOU FOR YOUR GENEROSITY!
Because of your outstanding support, Cornerstones has been able to assist our partners on the Pueblos and in small northern New Mexico villages with COVID-related needs. All funds have gone directly to the 15 current recipients. Your donations have allowed them to purchase basic items such as food, cleaning supplies, protective gear to the purchase of materials, labor to build out quarantine space and the purchase of a waterproof shed to be used as a guard station at one of the Pueblos.
The need continues. Please help by sending a check to: Cornerstones community Partnerships a PO Box 2341, Santa Fe, NM 87504, with a notation in the memo section for “Supporting Community” or donate through our website: https://www.cstones.org/supporting-community
We are all in this together, some just have greater needs than others!
Our Newest Supporting Community Recipients!
Pueblo of Santo Domingo
When the COVID-19 pandemic impacted the Santo Domingo Pueblo, Governor Thomas Moquino, Jr. closed the Pueblo to prevent the spread of the virus and to limit access in and out. Supporting Community supplied funds for a 10x10 weatherproof shed to be constructed and placed at one of the main entrances to the Galisteo and SDY2K subdivisions, with approximately 80 homes. The Security Guards are looking forward to the ‘shack’ and appreciate the Housing Authority and Cornerstones working together on the project.
The DEAP School
The DEAP Dzil Ditl’ooi Empowerment, Action, & Preservation School is a charter school, serving 60 students and families in Navajo, NM. The area has been severely impacted by COVID! DEAP requested funds for access to clean drinking water. Many families rely on tap water as their drinking water source and that water requires filtration to be safe for consumption. Supporting Community provided funding to purchase filtering water pitchers for families and water bottles for the students. The water bottles chosen were of high quality to be reusable, instead of the common plastic bottles that litter the community.
Horno Training
With some downtime recently, Cornerstones’ Intern, Angela Francis, (standing on the left side of the Horno) was able to travel to Villanueva to hold a workshop on the building of a cob oven at Seed + Stone Farm. Intern, Issac Logsdon, and his partner, Emily Souers,(seated in front of the Horno) built the 5 x 5 base out of adobe a month earlier with farm owners Barb Odell (Cornerstones’ documentarian) and Jennifer Billig. (Jennifer standing on the right side of the Horno).
Angela is well versed in the building of earthen ovens in OR, but this was her first in NM. The workshop was a two-day event with a minimal crew. The oven still needs some drying time before the final mud plaster will take place, using the red rich soil of the valley. The final coat of plaster will be applied at a later date.
Partial support for the project was provided by the Alexandra Ward Fellowship Fund.
Catholic Foundation Grants
The Catholic Foundation has again provided a grant to Cornerstones in 2020 to continue training workshops for youth to repair and mud plaster the Mission Churches in the Mora Valley, NM.
Panel of the Villanueva Tapestry
The Catholic Foundation also generously granted money to Cornerstones for the preservation of the Villanueva Tapestry. The Tapestry is a significant art treasure sited in Our Lady of Guadalupe Church, Villanueva. The panels ring the entire periphery of the interior of the church. 36 women stitchers created the panels, which tell the story of the Villanueva Valley to celebrate the bicentennial of the United State in 1976. The Tapestry has been compared to the famous Bayeux Tapestry in France.
