Frieda, 82, has called Elie, Manitoba, home for the past seven years. In 2015, after her husband’s health declined, she made the heart-wrenching decision to move him into a senior living facility. Unable to afford to live on her own, Frieda moved in with her lifelong friend, Ruth.
Life, however, continued to be tough for Frieda. Over the past four years, she has faced the devastating loss of both her husband and her son, just two months apart, and losing her driver’s license left her feeling even more isolated in her grief. Despite these hardships, Frieda found strength in the support of her community and her friends.
With the Cartier Senior Citizens Support Committee, one of our local community partners in Manitoba, HelpAge Canada helped Frieda access wrap-around services to ease the burden of everything she’d gone through and give her more independence. She and other older people in her rural community received meals, foot care, transportation, and other services close to home thanks to an Age Better grant that improved their quality of life.
One of the essentials that we helped to give Frieda was a new pair of glasses – something that seems so inconsequential, but to Frieda, who hadn’t had an eye exam in six years, it meant everything.
“It was a pleasure to be able to see Frieda’s smile on her face when she picked up her new glasses! She is grateful and very appreciative and very much in need of the generosity the HelpAge Canada grant was able to bestow upon her.”
— Senior Resource Coordinator, Cartier Senior Citizens Support Committee
Stories like Frieda’s are why supporting local community partners is more important now than ever before. A donation of as little as $20.00 today can help us reach even more older people with compassionate, local care and the support they need to thrive, right in the heart of their communities. Will you help us to show even more older people that they’re not alone?
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