Our Story

The Viking Village is a nonprofit organization in Kindred, ND modeled after the Central Cass Treehouse in Casselton, ND. Viking Village is ready to serve students in August, 2024 in time for the new school year.

Viking Village is a nonprofit organization that utilizes a unique collaboration between community volunteers and the school district to meet the basic needs of students at Kindred Schools. Through a generous donation from the Hickson Lutheran Church in Hickson, ND this program is kickstarted and ready to serve our students immediately.

Created in 2024, the organization was created after a pilot program at the Norman Davenport Parish that helped provide shoes, clothing and winter gear to students in the district for a few years after prompting from a local community member. Further discussion and shared resources from Heidi Domier at the Casselton Treehouse inspired the official model of Viking Village. Thanks to Tara Olson, Leonard ND for creating our logo.

Viking Village will make hygiene items, food, athletic gear, shoes and clothing available to those who need them.

Our platform is entirely anonymous, allowing for a confidential and shame free experience for students. Viking Village works with the school district to understand gaps, needs, and challenges while making products and services readily available for daily usage. We engage the community through close partnership to create opportunities for support and alignment while still leveraging the confidentiality of the student and school.

Viking Village will empower our middle and high school students to communicate any need confidentially. Students will have the ability to shop items through our online ordering platform enabling a convenient and confidential shopping experience with delivery to their locker during class time.

Viking Village is committed to support the basic needs of students physically, mentally and socially helping them reach their academic goals.

Support

There are many ways to support Viking Village.

Collection boxes: place your non-cash donations in collection boxes in our communities!

Kindred: Korner Plaza, K-Town, City Hall, Kindred Public Library, Hawk's Market

Davenport: Davenport Lutheran Church

Monetary donation: you are welcome to mail a donation to PO Box 23 Kindred, ND 58051 or use Venmo @Viking_Village

Amazon donation: feel free to click on our Amazon "wishlist" to purchase items and have them shipped directly to the Kindred Schools to be put into our Viking Village and distributed to children who need them. CLICK HERE TO DONATE

Locations

Viking Village is fortunate to have two locations in the Kindred Public Schools. While everything in Viking Village is free of charge to our students, Viking Village holds occasional (suggested donation) $5/bag sales for the community where you can fill a bag with items to purchase and all money goes back into Viking Village to fulfill the mission of meeting student needs in our district.

Kindred Elementary School

Viking Village is located upstairs in the old science rooms. All teachers have full access to the room which includes shoes, boots, clothing, socks, underwear, snacks, jackets, snow pants, mittens + more.

Kindred Middle/High School

Viking Village is located in an empty classroom right across from the art room that all students and teachers have full access to during the school day and can make arrangements with Toshia or a teacher for after hours access. The room contains clothing racks of concert dress clothes, viking wear, sweaters, shoes (athletic and dress), athletic shorts and shirts, sweatshirts, coats/hats/mittens, hygiene items, food + more

Meet our Team

The Viking Village board of directors is being built with community members, teachers, school administration, and counselors as we work to empower students in our district.