Help 250+ Vulnerable Elderly in Moldova

Dear donors, thank you for your donations and your support.

The money you have donated were used to continue our activities and to provide services for elderly in need from Moldova!

Starting May 2016, our Day Care Center remained without one of our main donors, due to the fact that their internal regulations are not allowing to sponsor the same organization more than a certain number of years. This can lead to stopping the day care center's activity or reducing the number of services provided or the number of elderly that can benefit of them.

It was supposed that in time our Government will take the responsibility for elderly. Unfortunately it won't happen in the next years. There are no money in the state budget for projects and activities for elderly. The state can't afford even to pay the obligatory contributions, the pensions are still very small:  around 40-50 dollars a month. That is far not enough for basic needs, the elderly are exposed to poverty. That's why our projects are still vital for the elderly.

Our aim is to lift all of our pensioners out of extreme poverty conditions so that they can participate fully in community life while providing them the basic needs: a warm meal, laundry services and the possibility to have a shower. Most of the elderly in Moldova are exposed to poverty. The pensions are barely enough for covering the basic needs, in the same time, most of the elderly do not have possibility to do personal hygiene at home (they do not have running water or hot water and even they do not have money for shampoo or soap).

The money we get from the donations on GlobalGiving, are going directly to support the vulnerable elderly that are coming to the day care center, offering them a warm meal, laundry and bath services.

Our projects aim to provide the basic needs and in the same time the elderly will enjoy variety of activities (we are also buying materials for hand-made activities) while building new friendships and to discuss different topics, psychology, hygiene and aiming to remember the elderly that they can be active citizens in the community. Services provided by Neoumanist Association in all our 4 projects are helping elderly to have a dignified retirement period.

Please consider telling to your friends about the elderly in need from Moldova, share please our GlobalGiving project: “Help 250+ Vulnerable Elderly in Moldova” on your social pages! 

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Thank you all for continuing to support us!

In Moldova, according to the National Social Insurance Company- the number of pensioners at 1st of July 2015 was 673.5 thousand persons or 10.6 thousand persons more compared to July 1, 2014. Approximately 76% of all pensioners are old age pensioners. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, there are 14719 pensioners in Straseni District, were Neoumanist Association is implementing its four projects for 350 elderly/ year .

The average size of the monthly pension on July 1 2015 constituted 1170.8 lei/ about 52 EUR. In the rural areas the pension level it is a lot lower than the average in urban areas.

National Bureau of Statistics informs that in the first semester of 2015 minimum of subsistence constituted in average 1724.9 lei (about 74 EUR) per month/ per person, increasing in comparison with the first semester of 2014 by 3.4%.

That’s why elderly are a vulnerable group of society in terms of exposure to poverty risk. The poverty rate for this population was 12.8% above the national average by 1.4 percentage points.

Almost 70 % of older people has no possibility include in their meals with regularity, meat or fish.

Statistics show that last year, every fifth elderly had no money for medicine. Besides lack of money, this category does not have all decent conditions for living, especially the elderly in villages.

Most of elderly that are beneficiaries of our projects are lonely and live in poverty. That’s why Neoumanist Association is providing vital services to elderly: social assistance, medical assistance, hot meals, laundry and bath facilities.

Due to your donations we had the opportunity to help the the elderly in need.

We have also the possibility to  Adopt-a-Bunica ! A donation of this amount provided direct funds to an elder to pay for their medical, and food costs for one month.

You can visualize the results of your help in the photos below.

 “Generosity is a practical expression of Love “- Gary Inrig   

Thank you for your expression of Love!

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