Apoya un ciudadano de oro (Help a Golden Citizen)

  • US$1,668.00
    raised of $25,000.00 goal goal
6% Funded
18 Donors

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The Hogar de Ancianos Asociación Vicentina de Escazú (Escazu’s Vicentine Association Elderly Residence) needs your support!

We’re a nonprofit elderly residence located in Barrio Santa Teresa, San Antonio, Escazú in San José, Costa Rica. Our goal is to be one of the best residences in the country and to give loving and comprehensive care to all our residents.

Our funding comes both from the families of some residents that pay for their staying, and from government support for the residents that do not have the means to pay their stay.

Our institution has experienced severe losses due to COVID-19. There was an outbreak of this virus in August, with many of our staff and residents becoming infected. Of 39 residents that we had at the end of July, 24 became sick, 14 were sent to the hospital, and sadly 10 did not come back.

We now have 27 residents, but our funding is not enough to cover the associated expenses. The funding that we were receiving from the government has mostly vanished, a consequence of the fact that the revenues earmarked for that purposes dried up with the economic crisis due to COVID-19. We have organized local fundraising activities, but this has been insufficient to fund our current expenses.

In addition, we now have spare capacity that we could use to host elders from residences that have had to close because of the crisis, but we need funding for that.

Our target is to raise $25,000, which would help fund our current expenses and the costs of accepting 15 new residents until the end of October, when we expect government funding to resume.

Thanks for your support – together we can get trough this!

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El Hogar de Ancianos Asiociación Vicentina de Escazú necesita tu apoyo!

Somos una residencia de personas mayores sin fines de lucro localizada en el Barrio Santa Teresa, San Antonio, Escazú en San José, Costa Rica. Nuestro objetivo es ser una de las mejores residencias en el país y brindar cuido amoroso e integral a todos nuestros residentes.

Nuestro financiamiento procede, una parte de los familiares de algunos residentes que pagan su estadía y otra de un partida del estado, que apoya a los residentes que recibimos y no tienen los medios para cubrir su estadía.

Debido al COVID-19, nuestra institución ha experimentado varias pérdidas, no solo monetarias, sino que humanas. La mayoría de nuestro personal y una cuantiosa porción de nuestros residentes se infectaron. De un total de 39 residentes a finales de Julio, 24 se enfermaron, 14 fueron hospitalizados y desafortunadamente 10 no lograron regresar del hospital.

Ahora tenemos una población de 27 residentes, pero nuestro financiamiento no es suficiente para cubrir los nuevos gastos asociados a la situación actual. El dinero otorgado por el Estado ha desaparecido casi por completo, a causa de que las ganancias estatales destinadas al apoyo de instituciones como la nuestra se han mermado debido a la crisis económica por COVID-19. Hemos organizado algunas actividades de recaudación de fondos de manera local, pero estas han sido insuficientes para cubrir nuestros gastos actuales.

Además, ahora tenemos una capacidad vacante que nos permitiría asumir a los residentes de otras instituciones que han tenido que cerrar por la crisis; pero para lograrlo necesitamos fondos.

Nuestra meta es recaudar $25.000.00 para solventar nuestros gastos actuales y los costos de aceptar 15 residentes nuevos hasta el final de Octubre, cuando esperamos que el apoyo estatal fluya con normalidad.

Gracias por tu apoyo – Juntos saldremos de esta!

Organizer

  • Asociacion VicentinaEscazu

Donors

  • Anonymous
  • Donated on Oct 15, 2020
$10.00
  • Yesenia Rodriguez N
  • Donated on Sep 29, 2020
  • each of us, hopefully we will become older adults, it is necessary to get involved with this reality and support those who are currently living this stage and require solidarity help

$25.00
  • Anonymous
  • Donated on Sep 26, 2020
$100.00
Sep 24

¿Cómo va la campaña? / How is the campaign going?

Update posted by Asociacion VicentinaEscazu at 06:06 pm

Hasta el momento hemos recaudado 5% de nuestra meta; queremos agradecer a nuestros donantes por su generoso apoyo y también queremos pedirles que nos ayuden a difundir esta camapaña.Imaginen que fácil sería completar la campaña si consiguieramos 24,000 personas más que nos donen cada uno un dólar. !En un solo. . . . .

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Donors & Comments

18 donors
  • Anonymous
  • Donated on Oct 15, 2020
$10.00
  • Yesenia Rodriguez N
  • Donated on Sep 29, 2020
  • each of us, hopefully we will become older adults, it is necessary to get involved with this reality and support those who are currently living this stage and require solidarity help

$25.00
  • Anonymous
  • Donated on Sep 26, 2020
$100.00
  • Anonymous
  • Donated on Sep 26, 2020
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  • Mary Ellen Gonzalez
  • Donated on Sep 26, 2020
  • Apoyando a un ciudadano de oro en Hogar Vicentina Escazu

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  • Anonymous
  • Donated on Sep 24, 2020
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  • Robert Schmidt
  • Donated on Sep 23, 2020
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  • Anonymous
  • Donated on Sep 22, 2020
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  • Anonymous
  • Donated on Sep 21, 2020
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  • Donated on Sep 18, 2020
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Followers

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Yesenia Rodriguez N
Mary Ellen Gonzalez
Jorge Amador
Andres Rodriguez
Lorena Clare Facio
Gertie Schlager
US$1,668.00
raised of $25,000.00 goal
6% Funded
18 Donors

No more donations are being accepted at this time. Please contact the campaign owner if you would like to discuss further funding opportunities