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Help Feed 200 Neglected Elderly in Guatemala  
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Project Need: $20,000
Funding
to Date:
$18,208 (%)
As of Feb 10 02:57 2012
Theme: Human Rights
Country: Guatemala [View country profile] info
Sponsor: Global Vision International Charitable Trust--Sponsor
Project duration: Ongoing

Project's focus area: Recognising the elderly as a neglected section of the community.
Project Needs and Beneficiaries

This project aims to increase awareness of age issues and health of the elderly. Due to economic constraints and a lack of understanding, this section of the community is neglected, undernourished and suffering increasingly from chronic health problems. This is becoming more prominent with 1 in 7 people in the region being over 60 by 2025 (98 million). Many of the elderly women in Guatemala have no one to help them having lost sons, husbands and brothers in the civil war.

Activities
By providing food for the old people of Guatemala, we will aid them and their families. With the children involved in distribution we will also foster a transmission of knowledge across the generations, keeping the indigenous communities alive.
Expected Outcomes
Each year we aim to feed 200 old people and benefit their communities with increased dialogue between generations.
Project Message
The elderly have often been neglected as there simply isn't the money for families to feed so many people. It is not that families don't want to feed their elderly relatives, they simply can't.
- Elena Siquinajay de Suy, Indigenous Leader, San Andrés Itzapa
Project Contact

Ross Deans,

GVI Charitable Trust 1st Floor
3 High Street
St Albans, Hertfordshire AL3 4ED
United Kingdom
+44 870 608 8898
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