A few decades ago, one of the first Consolata Missionaries opened a Facility for Elderly Women at Sagana Mission, in the middle of Kenya. Since the beginning of its life, the institution welcomes elderly women who are too poor to get by on their own or are abandoned by their families. Presently the facility counts 45 residents.
The name the institution was given, “St. Mary’s Village”, casts a light on its set up.
Unlike our Elderly People Homes in the States, where residents are served and everything is prepared for them, here at St. Mary’s Village residents can cook their own meal, if they are able to. They also gather firewood in the Village surroundings, sweep their room and do their laundry.
All bedrooms are at ground level and are connected by a veranda. Along the veranda, the room occupants prepare their daily meal – on a traditional three stone open fireplace – and eat it with their roommate.
The residents at the Village consider themselves blessed and happy. However, years leave a sign of their passing. Little by little muscles stiffen, joints ache and bones fail to respond as they used to in the blossom of their youth.
Father Jackson Murugara, Consolata Missionary, the current Director of St. Mary’s Village, would like to offer the possibility for the Village residents to recover some of the strength of their past years by physiotherapy. He has singled out a room and is in need of $6,500 in order to buy the basic physiotherapy equipment.
Please consider donating.
Together we will allow Father Jackson to buy the physiotherapy equipment he has asked for. The elderly women at St. Mary’s Village love to lead an autonomous life, the best they can. Your help will make it possible!
Thank you for your kindness.