Welcome to our Mexico Elevator Project
El Asilo de Ancianos
is a seniors home in Mazatlan, Mexico. It is run by 3 elderly nuns who should be cared for instead of caring for their 27 charges as a charitable calling. The big-ticket item they require is a service elevator or chair lift so they can make better use of the rooms on the second floor of their building. This is where the men quarters are located.
They do have a long ramp as well as stairs but it is difficult and dangerous to push the wheelchairs up and down the ramp. The residents are people who do not have family to care for them and do not have any means to care for themselves. This is the only option available in Mazatlan to people with no means. A very basic elevator is at the top of sister Josephina´s wish list so that they can take in more residents.
Why they need an elevator
The ramp, which goes from the main level to the upper level where the men´s rooms are, is long and steep. There is danger in bringing a wheelchair down if it gets away from you; or worse, on a rainy day when the ramp becomes very slippery. It is physically exhausting pushing a wheelchair full of a 160 pound man up the steep ramp – especially if you are an 80 year old woman!
There is no paid staff that stays the night – just the residents and the nuns who live there. If they need to get a wheelchair patient upstairs, they go across the street to the park to see who is there and ask for assistance – not the safest of measures but necessary to get the job done.
How we can make the ELEVATOR happen
You – can help us “little by little” by contributing financially OR by buying art from a Canmore, Alberta artist who has generously offered 50% of the proceeds from the sales orders you place with us to go towards this project.
We – will fund-raise through this blog and personally oversee the construction of the elevator. There are no middle men or organizations who will benefit from any of the proceeds we receive.
The quote we have received for a fully functional elevator is approximately CAD 12,000 or 145,000 pesos.
Please – take the time to learn more about how we plan to achieve this goal by clicking on the various pages below.
- ABOUT US – Who we are and why are doing this project
- OUR PROJECT – Who runs the senior home, the daily operations and its expenses.
- OUR SPONSOR – The artist, her website and her beautiful art showcasing the Rocky Mountains
- DONATE – We will happily accept cash from you. Here is how.
- GALLERY – Follow the project by looking at the photos we take as the project proceeds.
Hasta Pronto,
Linda, Judy and Turid
Elevator for Seniors Home in Mazatlan, Mexico 
February 28, 2014 at 9:05 pm
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