Homes for Chritmas

What a great day! Meet Kate,
Kate is a sweet old woman in her 70’s who has spent most of her life disabled due to malnutrition & diabetes. Kate has had her legs amputated and spends her time sitting in an old chair in a makeshift little shack. Her daughter and grandson also live in this small two room cardboard and driftwood home.

Luckily Kate has been given a wheelchair, however, it impossible to use it in her home due to the rocky unleveled dirt and patchy concrete floor.

COLORS South African partner Bethesda has created an outreach program to help their home care patents like Kate, with basic but very important projects and home improvements such as wheelchair accessibility.

So here’s the great day part,…. Yeh!!!!
Bethesda’s Mario and Yappy to the rescue! Sunny and I were fortunate enough to be invited to meet Kate and get to be apart of making her life a little bit brighter. When we arrived we were greeted with big toothless smiles. The smell of propane was overwhelming, but the excitement of the pending home improvements overpowered the room even more.

Smash went Yappies sludge hammer!...out went the dirt and old concrete….in came Mario with the wheelbarrow… Kate’s grandson runs around the outside of the house in total excitement that total strangers are now throwing dirt around his house.
Maybe he’s a bit jealous that he’s not allowed to throw dirt around the house too.

Before long Kate, has the gift of a whole new reality…accessibility of her own home!

After assessing the need of Kate’s home, Sunny and I followed up with providing anti fungal cream to help treat the little boys ringworm infection, a good home 1st aid kit, dental supplies plus a warm blanket and some toys for the boy