Help Feed 200 Neglected Elderly in Guatemala

Summary

This project will provide a regular supply of basic foods and other items to the elderly population in parts of rural Guatemala, whilst educating families on age related issues. progress report read updates from the field

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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.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: £10,742
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £0
Total Funding Goal: £10,181

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

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

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Ross Deans,

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

Project Sponsor

Global Vision International Charitable Trust--Sponsor

Organisation

Global Vision International Charitable Trust
Third Floor
The Senate
Exeter, Devon EX1 1UG
United Kingdom
+44 1727 250 250
http://www.gvi.org

Learn more about Global Vision International Charitable Trust and the project team.

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Guatemala and can also be found under Human Rights.

For more information about Guatemala, read the Human Development Report on Guatemala or the Wikipedia entry for Guatemala.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on January 30, 2012.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 04, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

Amazing support for the GVI Charitable Trust

By Ross Deans - GVI Charitable Trust Manager, January 30, 2012 01:04 PM

We would like to share the most recent trustee report from the GVI Charitable Trust. This report covers the six month period from July to December 2011.

We are delighted to share that this has been by far our most successful period, raising in six months nearly as much as we did the whole of the previous year. This increase in funding has brought a corresponding increase in the impact we have been able to create on our programs around the world.

During this period we have invested in sustainable education across Latin America including support for the elderly in Guatemala and income generation schemes to support education in Honduras and Ecuador. In Mexico we have worked with a community to establish a recycling centre and in Kenya our partners in Mombasa will now realise their goal of seeing impoverished students through to completion of the primary education earning recognised qualifications for the first time.

These are just a few highlights of an amazing, productive and rewarding six months. Thank you to everyone who has supported us and played a crucial role in these achievements.

Attachments:

July - December 2011 Trustee Report (PDF)

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