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Pine Ridge
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Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
Per Capita Income: $13,874 in Shannon County (45% of the national per capita income); 97% live below the Federal poverty level.
Unemployment rate: 85%
Life Expectancy: Approximately 50 years. The shortest life expectancies of any group in the Western Hemisphere.
Infant Mortality Rate: Five times the national average
Alcoholism Rate: 80%
Teenage Suicide Rate: Three times the national average
Municipal Utilities: Many of the families have no electricity, telephone, running water, or sewer.
Strongholds: Hopelessness, Addiction, Poverty, Racism, Bitterness and Isolation
For more information about the workers we support in each region, please see the Prayer Cards located on the Registration Wall in the Atrium, the “Crossroads
Missions” brochure, or contact one of our Global Outreach team members. We do not publish information on the website about the Missionaries we support in order
to protect their ministries and their security.
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