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Warm Their Souls, With Clothes

Help buy warm clothing for the elderly that grew up, lived in, and will survive in the face of extreme poverty in the Sierra of Perú

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Warm Their Souls, With Clothes

Warm Their Souls, With Clothes

Warm Their Souls, With Clothes

Warm Their Souls, With Clothes

Warm Their Souls, With Clothes

Help buy warm clothing for the elderly that grew up, lived in, and will survive in the face of extreme poverty in the Sierra of Perú

Help buy warm clothing for the elderly that grew up, lived in, and will survive in the face of extreme poverty in the Sierra of Perú

Help buy warm clothing for the elderly that grew up, lived in, and will survive in the face of extreme poverty in the Sierra of Perú

Help buy warm clothing for the elderly that grew up, lived in, and will survive in the face of extreme poverty in the Sierra of Perú

Hilary Jones
Hilary Jones
Hilary Jones
Hilary Jones
1 Campaign |
Ancash, Peru
$1,080 USD 10 backers
154% of $700 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal

My daughter lives in a small town in the sierra of Perú where most only know poverty and extreme poverty.  Some of the most marginalized and unforgivingly forgotten are the older members of the community.  The Peruvian Family can be a stronghold of shelter, food, and support as all members of one family can share a roof, meals, and lives until one leaves only to start his or her own family.  The structure is beautiful and the culture of giving and helping is strong, however, when one does not have a family of which to speak they can suffer a lonesome, harsh reality.  

One woman, who must be in her later 80s, lives alone in a dark adobe house.  She sleeps on an old, soiled mattress, seasoned with filth, in a room where garbage, old and tattered clothes, empty bottles, dried plants, and once used buckets for baths and laundry hang from the ceiling in bags to avoid the inevitable wetness that will soak her home as rainy season pounds down on her tin roof.  She can barley walk between the only two places where she has spent countless, isolated years.  She lives off of and relies on the prepared lunches that some of the Sisters bring her daily.  This is the only meal that she eats a day, and has no means of buying or obtaining food in any other way.  She is a frail woman, mostly confused, incredibly thankful, and increasingly jolly.  However, she tears up as she wonders why she is alone and where has her family gone.  She wears only a worn knitted hat and an old sweater tied around her shoulders to keep warm while she spends the day sitting in her kitchen outside waiting for the time to pass.  Because she never received a DNI (National Identity Document) she cannot receive aid from the government, instead the institutionalized social program, Pensión 65, goes to others, while she and many desperate elderly, who have lived in poverty for their whole lives, stand no chance in receiving this needed assistance.  She has neither blame nor anger; she lives as she lives, and has unfortunately accustomed to a sub-standard way of living; she relies only on the kindness of others to make it through each day.

Isabel, is a primary school teacher who began the Asociación Liga de La Juventud Por una Verdadera Democracia y Desarrollo Bolognesino (Association of Youths for True Democracy and Development). This is an Association that organizes youths to take action, as volunteers, to address certain issues in the community, and in this sense they began a program to support the elderly people in the community that have little to no resources and few people in their lives to support them.  In the past, Isabel and the other volunteers have raised money to fix roofs, provided food, organized home-visits by doctors, and helped to clean and maintain the elderlies’ homes.  Isabel is an incredible teacher, mother, and community member; she created this group to help those in need, simply because she has seen them suffer and knows that something should be done.  It has been hard to get help from the state in order to provide these men and women with the services and necessities that they need in order to live.  Due to the scarcity of funds Isabel has come to my daughter in the hope that others like her will join together to help the many men and women who live much like the aforementioned.  Together they hope to buy jackets, blankets, hats, and gloves for the 35 men and women that the Association helps annually as winter is coming.

We have a goal to raise $700 dollars in donations, all of which will go to the elderly in this small community in the form of clothing and blankets.  With any extra funds after each of the 34 people involved with the Association are fully clothed and equipped for winter, the volunteer members of group will buy Work Vest for the Association.  Vests are formality in Perú. When one has a vest with their organization’s name on it, they seemingly win the respect and allegiance of others.  A formal uniform would bring the Association more support and recognition in the community, and consequently, more could be achieved and earned in the quest to aid the marginalized elderly. 

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