Support the dignity and well-being of our elderly! Help us help!
The Guarda District is facing a significant aging population. Young people in search of better living conditions leave behind their elders, who often lack any family or social support. They are resilient people who want to continue living with dignity in their homes, remaining connected to the land and to what they have built throughout their lives. They are just as valuable as those who leave, but they carry with them the weight of an existence full of stories and memories.
These are the people Rugas de Sorrisos wants to support and help. We respect and defend freedom of choice and the individuality of each person. It is important to listen to what the elderly want and try to offer them the answers they need, keeping them in their own homes and in their daily routines, even if with some support.
We can be the answer, but to do so, we need you! In order to continue providing personalized, dignified and quality care, promoting the physical and emotional well-being of those we care for, we need your help. With your support, we will be able to continue responding to our users and ensure that more elderly people have access to care that respects their individuality and promotes their autonomy and quality of life.
Every donation, no matter how small, will make a big difference in the lives of those who need support but want to maintain their independence.
At this crucial stage of Rugas de Sorrisos, we would like to appeal to all those who identify with our cause to help us make a difference. How? By supporting this campaign, you are enabling an elderly person to continue to age with dignity in the environment where they feel safest!
Your generosity will allow us to continue providing this service. Join us in this cause and make a difference in the lives of those who deserve it so much.
"Alone we go faster, but together we go further!"
About the author
Rugas de Sorrisos - Social Support Association, with IPSS statutes, was formalized in October 2017 and has been promoting in the Guarda region a pioneering service of proximity and support to the elderly and their caregivers, allowing to postpone or even avoid their institutionalization.
We emerged in a context of great needs at this level, which put the district of Guarda in first place, nationally, with the most elderly people living alone and isolated. This data, from the Senior Census, has been worsening considerably in recent times, with more than 5 thousand elderly people in vulnerable situations, which has led us to focus on expanding our responses.
To this end, networking was, and is, essential. If we achieved the goals we set ourselves, it was thanks to the financial cushion from the application for the Partnerships for the Impact of the Public Initiative of Portugal Inovação Social and from social investors, who recognized the relevance of our work and supported 70% and 30%, respectively, of our expenses, for 3 years, which ran from 2020 to 2023; on the ground, we were able to expand our scope of action and create more value for the situations we monitor thanks to the cooperation protocols made with the GNR and the PSP, which identified the most urgent and delicate situations, promoting their inclusion.
Through a multidisciplinary team, we have supported to date, with our services - home companionship, accompaniment to appointments, shopping, treatments, services, visits to family members, individual and group activities for cognitive and sensory stimulation, health and well-being care that can be individual (such as help with bathing), physiotherapy treatments, massages, nursing care or holistic therapies and walks - 145 elderly people on the social inclusion register between the municipalities of Guarda, Mêda and Trancoso and, as soon as possible, we intend to extend our radius of action to Pinhel and Sabugal.
We believe we are the perfect accomplice in the day-to-day life of this age group, to whom we offer attention and emotions, in a simple, creative and competent way, adapting to their needs and tastes.
But to continue doing so we need your support!
Help us achieve this goal by dignifying someone's tomorrow!
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