Vida Senior Center "A Community Thrives " Campaign

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A nonprofit fundraiser supporting

Vida Senior Centers
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We Ask your Support to Create a Virtual Home Away from Home for Hispanic Seniors.

$7,848

raised by 35 people

$7,000 goal

Vida Senior Centers has been supporting low-income Hispanic seniors in the Washington DC area for more than 50 years.  Aging brings challenges for all of us - income challenges, health challenges, cognitive challenges - but imagine having to face all those challenges in a country that is linguistically and culturally foreign to you. Vida's clients are mostly elderly women. They stem from 25 central and south American countries.  They are mostly single, widowed, or divorced, women who have worked hard all their lives at low paying jobs and now face old age displaced, poor, and mostly alone.  They see Vida Senior Centers as their safe haven, their home away from home, a place where they meet others just like them, where they can speak Spanish, enjoy dancing, knitting, singing, try Zumba and Yoga, where they can take English lessons, learn computer skills, carry out cooking competitions and argue endlessly about the specific beauties of their native countries.  But mostly it is a place where they can feel safe and where they always can find someone to help them. Vida closed both Centers due to the COVID-19 pandemic in March which created a negative impact on the seniors’ daily community routine.  Vida has found ways to get food to the seniors, but isolation and loneliness are taking their toll on the population.  Vida is seeking funds to move the support of these seniors from closed buildings to the wide-open internet, buy tablets and data plans for those among them in need of communication devices,  teach all of the current technology in Spanish and create a community for them -- an internet Hispanic home, a place where they can always feel welcome and where they understand that it is their adopted country that appreciates them, helps them and looks after them.

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Vida Senior Centers

Organized By Brigitte Savage

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