La Fondita de Jesus in the Community

Distinguished Donors:

Greetings on behalf of Corporación La Fondita de Jesús' family. With great respect, we are reporting our achievements and challenges while providing services to vulnerable communities through the "La Fondita de Jesús en la Comunidad" (La Fondita de Jesús in the Community) program from September through December 2025.

During this quarter, our project delivered 12,194 service units to 954 unique individuals and families across 109 communities, of whom 8 (7%) were impacted by our project for the first time. In other words, there is an average of 13 units of services per participant. These communities are in the following 16 Puerto Rican municipalities: Aguadilla, Arecibo, Bayamón, Canóvanas, Carolina, Cayey, Guaynabo, Humacao, Juncos, Naranjito, Patillas, San Juan, Toa Baja, Trujillo Alto, Utuado, and Yabucoa.

Trying to keep you as informed as possible regarding the demographic descriptions of the people we provided services to during this period, the distribution per gender was as follows:

• Females = 66%
• Males = 33%
• Transgender and non-binary = 1%

68% of the population served (n=648) were older adults (ages 55+), 3% (n=31) were children (ages 0-17), and 2% (n=22) were young adults (ages 18-24); all from vulnerable communities. We always point out that these individuals, families, and communities are at imminent risk of losing their homes, given their needs, life circumstances, and social determinants of health.

Donating materials needed for participants in impacted communities is always part of our work. Some of the donations provided during this quarter included snacks, boxes of water bottles, medical equipment, Narcan and Fentanyl Test Strips, vitamin C bottles, clothing and shoes, emergency groceries, underpads, over-the-counter medications, prescriptions, hygiene kits, house-cleaning kits, and hot lunches.

Workshops were developed and provided regarding the following themes:

• Literacy workshop
• Basic Cell Phone Handling and Use
• Domestic and Gender Violence
• Community Action Strategies
• Strategies to Avoid Isolation and Loneliness in Older Adults
• Healthy Relationships
• Oral Hygiene for Families
• Designing with Canva
• Breast Cancer

Some of our most important achievements during this period were as follows:

• During this period, we had the opportunity to impact eight new communities.
• In general, community member participation continues to increase.
• During this period, the continued and sustained expansion of educational and health services provided to new communities has allowed us to positively impact communities with limited or no access to these resources. This achievement reflects and sustains our commitment to providing essential services to disadvantaged communities.
• Participants show interest in benefiting from the organization's support and in using its services to develop their self-sufficiency in various areas of their lives, such as housing, employment, studies, and health.
• During this period, participating communities continued to be educated and empowered through workshops and the distribution of informational pamphlets, as key strategies to promote physical and mental health care and to provide essential information to encourage self-management.

Challenges:

• During this period, the need for affordable housing for participants continues. The stigma, prejudice, businesses, short-term rentals, and the high-cost rental market, among other factors, have contributed to the challenging process of locating participants with housing vouchers in our programs, which affects their well-being.
• Throughout this period, the urgency of continuing to create spaces for dialogue and awareness on topics such as mental health, self-care, inclusion of the LGBTTQIA+ community, and neurodiversity has become evident. Although initiatives such as Community Book Club have represented significant progress, stigmas and social barriers persist that must be consistently addressed.

We are incredibly grateful to all of you, our social investors, who believe in our work and commitment and continue to allow us to have an impact on the lives of so many people consistently! Should you need additional information or have any questions regarding this report, please do not hesitate to contact us through the GlobalGiving Foundation. Thank you!

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