Help Vida's Seniors Celebrate the Holidays

Help Vida's Seniors Celebrate the Holidays

Vida Senior Centers has been supporting low-income seniors struggling to age in place in the Washington DC area, for more than 50 years. The seniors are mostly but not exclusively Hispanic.  All live at or below the poverty line. 

Aging brings challenges for all of us:  income challenges, health challenges, cognitive challenges, but imagine having to face all those challenges in a country that is linguistically and culturally foreign to you. Vida's clients are mostly elderly women, single, widowed or divorced.  They stem from 21 Central and South American countries.  They have worked hard all their lives at low paying jobs and now face old age displaced, poor and mostly alone.  They see Vida Senior Centers as their safe haven, their home away from home, a place where they meet others just like them, where they can speak Spanish, enjoy dancing, knitting, singing, try Zumba and Yoga, where they can take English lessons, learn computer skills, mount cooking  competitions and argue endlessly about the beauties of their specific native countries.  

As we approach the holidays the seniors struggle to find the funds to celebrate. They miss their homes, their families, their communities, their friends.  Vida is collecting fresh turkeys and chickens for them, boxes of stuffings, jars of gravies, fresh vegetables and small gifts.  As you prepare your own celebrations, please keep the Vida seniors in mind. Your small gift will have a big impact on the life of a lonely senior