MCG Gives Back: Dispatches from New Mexico
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Every member of the MCG team got involved in politics to make a difference in our communities and help to build a better future for our country.
Vice President of Operations Linda Patterson is on a mission in the Navajo Nation, refitting homes and helping residents. The reservation, located in northwestern New Mexico, is the largest in America, and its 200,000 people struggle with high rates of poverty and unemployment.
Linda’s sending us dispatches while she’s there, and we’ll keep posting them over the next few days.
Here’s the first, from July 19th:
Yesterday met the folks who will benefit from our work Monday and Tuesday. The Navajo people I met today had lived their whole lives on this reservation. We will be working on a home for a man and his family whose grandfather was a Code Talker in World War II.
