Needs: a new space to live (rent $)
A previous story about Maria Luisa can be found here.
To help her, click here. To sponsor her to eat each day for $35 a month, click here.
UPDATE Jan 3 2013: Maria received a chair, and a new bed for the mattress she received last year!
UPDATE Jan 3 2013: Maria received a chair, and a new bed for the mattress she received last year!
Feb 2013: Maria received a new water filter
For more stories and photos of the ancianos in the Feeding Program, please consider purchasing a book compiled of our participants. All profits go to the Elderly. You can preview the book here.
For more stories and photos of the ancianos in the Feeding Program, please consider purchasing a book compiled of our participants. All profits go to the Elderly. You can preview the book here.
We follow Maria, who is bent over at a right angle like a periscope above the ground, toward her home where the stove, bed and mattress she were given take up most of the room.
She cooks and sleeps with only a few feet between the stove and the bed. The walls are black from smoke, though the stove she has is fuel-efficient.
There is only enough space for one person indoors, so she sits in the doorway while the rest of us stand outside.
She barely hears a word asked of her, even in her native tongue: do you have family? what are your needs?
And she is shy to reply, as if it is obvious what she has and what she does not.
She looks off, nodding when she feels it might be appropriate to do so, telling stories here and there.
Her three kids left a long time ago, and don't take care of her at all. Her back hurts from years of sleeping on the ground. Everyday, she carries her water from the community water source up the hill where she lives.
She pays nothing to rent the room without light, a bathroom or space for even a table.
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