Felipa Ramos Pocop

(A-54) Status: Not Sponsored

Needs: food, Onil stove, water filter
UPDATE Dec 21, 2012: Felipa has received the gift of a blanket and sweater!
To help Felipa with these needs, click here. To sponsor her in the Feeding Program, click here. 
UPDATE May 21, 2013: Felipa received a full mattress!  
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Having been widowed, and therefore left acceptably, but unwillingly alone, my Kaqchiquel translator tells me: It might be me one day. My children will leave. My husband’s gone; things here aren’t like they are for you where you come from, there’s no place for us to go when we grow old.

Felipa had been married 40 years when her spouse died: we were supposed to walk to our deaths together, and now it's just me in this house alone.

10 months ago she suffered a hemorrhage in her brain. Now one eye doesn’t work and one side of her body is asleep.

Her four kids have their own families, so they no longer care for her. One son gives her a little food when he can, though his work isn't steady and there are days he doesn't come.

She goes without eating if no one brings her food. 

The interior of Felipa's home