The project that saw us at the forefront of supporting the elderly of the Acomba community in the Huancavelica region of Peru has recently come to an end. In synergy with the Asociación Corazones & Manos Solidarias San Francisco, we decided last year to inaugurate the ‘Equipped Outpatient Clinic for Huancavelica – for the benefit of the underprivileged in the third age’, consisting of the purchase of medicines, supplements, nutritional supplements and hygiene items for the clinic.

The region of Huancavelica is one of the poorest in the whole of Peru, and it is mainly the elderly who suffer: in most cases their children have emigrated to the big cities in search of work, leaving their parents and grandparents alone. The Asociación Corazones & Manos Solidarias has asked for help in equipping the outpatient clinic, which for a symbolic price – necessary to make the project continuous over time – will provide the 120 members of the community with what they need.

We are happy to have had the opportunity to inaugurate and complete this project that will improve the living conditions of the most fragile, providing them not only with concrete help in terms of basic necessities, but also with moral support that will help them not to feel so alone.