Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Each year we aim to feed 200 old people and benefit their communities with increased dialogue between generations.

Project Message

The elderly have often been neglected as there simply isn't the money for families to feed so many people. It is not that families don't want to feed their elderly relatives, they simply can't.
- Elena Siquinajay de Suy, Indigenous Leader, San Andrés Itzapa

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Andy Woods-Ballard,
Director of Operations
GVI Charitable Trust 1st Floor
3 High Street
St Albans, Hertfordshire AL3 4ED
United Kingdom
+44 870 608 8898
Email:

Project Sponsor

Global Vision International Charitable Trust

Organization

Global Vision International Charitable Trust GVI-Charitable Trust 1st Floor 3 High Street St Albans, Herts. AL3 4ED United Kingdom 44 (0) 870 608 8898 http://www.gvi.org.uk/

Learn more about Global Vision International Charitable Trust and the project team.

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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Guatemala and can also be found under Human Rights.

For more information about Guatemala, read the Human Development Report on Guatemala or the Wikipedia entry for Guatemala.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on December 17, 2007.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 04, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

Which comes next, the chicken or the egg?

By Dominic Williams - Phoenix Project Director, December 17, 2007 06:21 PM

Thank you all for your donations and especially Tilly Lavenas with her matching fund. This only lasts for a couple more weeks, so if anyone is nearly there, a donation now will be doubled!
This scheme has gone incredibly well in 2007, with almost 100 elderly receiving the basic foods every three months, which include rice, beans, oils, pastas, soaps, sugar, salt etc. We are seeing some differences with the children too, which we hoped, whereby the children can now receive the food that may have gone to the old people within the family. During next year, we are introducing a chicken scheme, where each family will receive two egg-laying chickens, with the deal being that they must provide into the Old People's Plan, eggs and a chicken over the course of the year, to make it more sustainable.
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• The women return for further discussions
• Another successful meeting, all are happy with the aid

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