Hello everyone,
There is a small family in serious need of help. Should anyone be able to or willing to assist, please contact me via PM or via cell phone to 8363-4120. Wilheim and several others here know me well, and can vouch for my honesty and attest to my trustworthiness. If you would like to make any donation in person, or visit them to better understand their needs please feel free to contact me.
There is a small family in my neighborhood comprised of a 70 year old widow, her daughter of age 45 who is mentally deficient and who has an 8 year old boy by the name of Luis. The little boy Luis was diagnosed with Leukemia and has now been hospitalized for 3 months at the Hospital de Ninos. The child is receiving treatment for what I understand is one of the more difficult types of that cancer. The story is heart breaking. Only God knows the pain they are living in each day... and as a parent it tears our heart when we receive them at our house and see them cry from the bottom of their hearts. Perhaps you and I can help bring a little sunshine and relief into their hearts and lives.
Thanks to Costa Rica's health care system, the boys treatment is free of charge, but this family of 3 lives in extreme poverty. Their only income, the grandmother's pension barely amounts to $80 a month which hardly covers her and her daughter's daily bus fares to visit the boy at the hospital daily where the two take turns staying with the boy; one arrives at the hospital at 7am and leaves at 6pm when the other arrives to spend the night at the boy's bed-side.
I have asked the grandmother whether she eats and she humbly dodges the question as she evidently does not have the means to afford anything during the day. This has put her health in an extremely vulnerable position. So she spends the day waiting until her daughter arrives so she can return home where she would see about possibly eating something. Their story is one of much sadness, but in the measure possible I want to try and make a difference helping them as best I can, and want to offer anyone interested in participating with me the opportunity to do so.
I bought a few groceries for them 12 days or so ago, and pass on additional food supplies every chance I can, but I am sure they must be running out already. I would like to buy some vitamin supplements for the old woman some groceries and additional house supplies as well. If there was a way, I would really like to have her visit with a doctor as she is in a very fragile and weak state of health. Her health has deteriorated very quickly as of late, and it is no wonder given their recent plight and the sorrow they are living in for her grandchild who just days ago had a part of his lung removed due to complications.
The most difficult thing right now is trying to find a way so that her and her daughter don't have to visit their boy ... trying to find neighbors or relatives to go and spend a day or a night at the hospital instead for them so they can get some much needed rest. Contacting their relatives has been impossible. I am going to see if I can volunteer to spend the night this Saturday. They have been enduring their current routine without rest for the past 3 months.
I realize we all have our own situations to deal with, and the current state of economical matters is difficult, but please have them in your prayers and if you would like to and can participate, contact me. Thank you, and God bless.
Tico
There is a small family in serious need of help. Should anyone be able to or willing to assist, please contact me via PM or via cell phone to 8363-4120. Wilheim and several others here know me well, and can vouch for my honesty and attest to my trustworthiness. If you would like to make any donation in person, or visit them to better understand their needs please feel free to contact me.
There is a small family in my neighborhood comprised of a 70 year old widow, her daughter of age 45 who is mentally deficient and who has an 8 year old boy by the name of Luis. The little boy Luis was diagnosed with Leukemia and has now been hospitalized for 3 months at the Hospital de Ninos. The child is receiving treatment for what I understand is one of the more difficult types of that cancer. The story is heart breaking. Only God knows the pain they are living in each day... and as a parent it tears our heart when we receive them at our house and see them cry from the bottom of their hearts. Perhaps you and I can help bring a little sunshine and relief into their hearts and lives.
Thanks to Costa Rica's health care system, the boys treatment is free of charge, but this family of 3 lives in extreme poverty. Their only income, the grandmother's pension barely amounts to $80 a month which hardly covers her and her daughter's daily bus fares to visit the boy at the hospital daily where the two take turns staying with the boy; one arrives at the hospital at 7am and leaves at 6pm when the other arrives to spend the night at the boy's bed-side.
I have asked the grandmother whether she eats and she humbly dodges the question as she evidently does not have the means to afford anything during the day. This has put her health in an extremely vulnerable position. So she spends the day waiting until her daughter arrives so she can return home where she would see about possibly eating something. Their story is one of much sadness, but in the measure possible I want to try and make a difference helping them as best I can, and want to offer anyone interested in participating with me the opportunity to do so.
I bought a few groceries for them 12 days or so ago, and pass on additional food supplies every chance I can, but I am sure they must be running out already. I would like to buy some vitamin supplements for the old woman some groceries and additional house supplies as well. If there was a way, I would really like to have her visit with a doctor as she is in a very fragile and weak state of health. Her health has deteriorated very quickly as of late, and it is no wonder given their recent plight and the sorrow they are living in for her grandchild who just days ago had a part of his lung removed due to complications.
The most difficult thing right now is trying to find a way so that her and her daughter don't have to visit their boy ... trying to find neighbors or relatives to go and spend a day or a night at the hospital instead for them so they can get some much needed rest. Contacting their relatives has been impossible. I am going to see if I can volunteer to spend the night this Saturday. They have been enduring their current routine without rest for the past 3 months.
I realize we all have our own situations to deal with, and the current state of economical matters is difficult, but please have them in your prayers and if you would like to and can participate, contact me. Thank you, and God bless.
Tico
