“When Ireland was in need you understood what Solidarity really looked like.'
A GoFundMe page for Navajo and Hopi families devastated byhas raised over $2.6 million as of Wednesday, in no small part because of the hundreds of donations coming from names like O'Neill, Hanrahan, O'Leary and Munro.
"At Ireland's time of need during the Great Hunger of the 1840s, Native American people donated to the famine relief effort even though they themselves were still living in hardship. Their generosity will never be forgotten," Dermot Burke wrote on the GoFundMe page on May 3, along with a $30 donation to the Navajo and Hopi relief efforts.
Navajo Nation has seen an increasingly challenging rise of coronavirus cases since the outbreak began in early March, spreadingon a reservation that lacks running water for nearly a third of residents, creating barriers to hand-washing, and where crowded multi-generational homes can make social distancing all but impossible.
A road sign outside Bloomfield, N.M., warns Navajos to stay home during their nation's 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew to slow the spread of the coronavirus, on April 7, 2020. A road sign outside Bloomfield, N.M., warns Navajos to stay home during their nation's 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew to slow the spread of the coronavirus, on April 7, 2020.Navajo Nation, which has access to only about 20 intensive care unit beds for a population of nearly 30,000, has pressed for help from the federal government in combating the spread.
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