Feb 27, 2024 | Help-for-the-Elderly
For 90-year-old Maria in Romania, a monthly Help for the Elderly parcel is a gift from above. Her poor health makes it difficult to walk, so she spends most of her days in bed. Maria’s caretaker is her daughter who also has health problems and is mentally handicapped....
Jun 20, 2023 | Help-for-the-Elderly
Standing in the doorway of her small home, 88-year-old Olga wears a smile that carries years of loss, loneliness, and suffering. Olga knows a widow’s grief since her husband passed away 40 years ago. She also knows the pain of watching her son become addicted to...
Apr 4, 2023 | Help-for-the-Elderly
Maria Mojica lives several miles from the Pacific coast of Nicaragua, just outside the small town of Masachapa. To find her house, we wind back a narrow dusty road that borders huge fields of towering sugarcane. Maria and her husband never had children. He passed away...
