Old age changes when someone is present

by Fundacion de Beneficencia Hogar de Cristo
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Old age changes when someone is present
Old age changes when someone is present
Old age changes when someone is present
Old age changes when someone is present
Old age changes when someone is present
Old age changes when someone is present
Old age changes when someone is present
Old age changes when someone is present
Old age changes when someone is present
Old age changes when someone is present
Old age changes when someone is present

Summary

More than 2,400 elderly people in Chile live alone, in poverty, and without support networks. Through Hogar de Cristo's Home Accompaniment Program, we provide regular home visits, emotional support, healthcare follow-up, help with paperwork, and reconnection with family and neighbors. Your donation helps vulnerable older adults receive care, companionship, and daily support so they do not face old age alone.

$10,000
total goal
$2,541
remaining
32
donors
0
monthly donors
1
fundraiser
5
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Challenge

Thousands of elderly people in Chile face loneliness, poverty, fragile health, and isolation every day. Many spend days without speaking to anyone or struggle alone with medical appointments, treatments, medications, and essential paperwork. Without support networks, aging becomes more difficult, unsafe, and emotionally devastating. They urgently need consistent care, companionship, and human presence.

Solution

Hogar de Cristo's Home Accompaniment Program visits more than 2,400 elderly people living alone across Chile. Our teams coordinate medical care, monitor treatments and medications, assist with paperwork, and help reconnect older adults with neighbors, relatives, and local support networks. Your support helps provide ongoing companionship, protection, and dignity to vulnerable elderly people.

Long-Term Impact

Regular accompaniment improves emotional wellbeing, strengthens support networks, and helps elderly people maintain safer, healthier, and more connected lives. With continuous support, older adults are less isolated, receive better healthcare follow-up, and regain dignity and human connection. Your donation helps ensure they do not face old age alone. Aging changes when someone is there.

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Organization Information

Fundacion de Beneficencia Hogar de Cristo

Location: Santiago - Chile
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Project Leader:
Daniela Tosti-Croce
Santiago , Chile
$7,459 raised of $10,000 goal
 
37 donations
$2,541 to go
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