Shopping at Fey y Alegria for donated clothes.

While the event shown directly below is a shopping event not to be surpassed, a little farther below you will see the completed Rainbow of Lydia's and Neil's (with Sandro). You will also see a picture of Lilmar Lopez and Tonny. There are many ways to volunteer, and Neil and Lydia showed their artistic side, as well as serving meals to the Abueltios, washing dishes, helping in Bingo and a myriad of other activites; Lilimar began a marketing campaign to businesses in Villa, put together a meeting, and a presentation for that meeting. You can also see below a picture of the entire Martincitos' staff.

Directly below, you can see pictures of yesterday's shopping spree at the school Fe y Alegria (Faith and Joy)#17. Sister Cecilia and her volunteers had table upon table of clothing for both men and women, and everyone was given a shopping bag. The whole scene reminded me of Filene's basement (for those of you not from New England, "the basement" is where all of the department store Filene's puts their marked down clothing). since there are so many good deals there, they just lay the merchandise out, and people can scramble for the best deals. Fe y Alegria put together an even better "filene's basement", since all of the clothing was donated.

The donated clothers came from Peruvians. Before you think about shipping old clothes here, please remember that there are duties and taxes at the SerPost post office. Often these "impuestos" are more than the value of the goods inside. A money donation can do two things: 1. allow Adopt a Grandparent to purchase the goods here, helping the Peruvan economy, and 2. allow us to buy that which is most needed at the time.

Please look at the stories of some of our grandparent in "Meet our Grandparents" section; they may need medicine, or a new roof, or shoes. The needs differ over time, and there is always an emergency to deal with.

Currently, the abuelitos who need prescription glasses, will be able to have eye tests next week, and for S/.20.00 (twenty soles, approximately $6.25) they can buy a new pair of glasses.Unfortunately some of the grandparents don't have the twenty soles for the glasses.... Here's where you money donations come in.

Please click on the "Donate Now" button on almost every page, and give us the money for three pairs of glasses ($20.00).