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blogcutterToday's donation goes to the Eldercare Foundation of Ottawa:
http://eldercarefoundation.ca
As is now well known, Long Term Care home residents and staff have been the group hardest hit by the Coronavirus in terms of numbers and severity of cases as well as fatalities.
This is not a completely new charity, having been around for about 12 years, but it has become especially relevant during the Covid-19 pandemic. Its founder, Adam Nihmey, was inspired to set it up based on his experiences visiting both of his grandmothers while they were in long-term care.
His co-founder, Betty Hope-Gittens, who had earlier chaired Help the Aged for 25 years, gave the charity a major boost last year, when she decided to walk all 800 kilometres of the Camino de Santiago trail in Spain to celebrate her 80th birthday. She raised over $200,000 for 13 long term care homes in Ottawa. Next year and beyond, she hopes to raise further funds for the Foundation by getting clients, staff, family and friends from each of the Ottawa homes involved in a sponsored walk within the home's grounds.
You can find a profile of this remarkable woman in the May/June issue of 55 Plus, which we received with today's paper. And we can all hope that when this pandemic is just a distant memory, those of us who are still around will be holding politicians' feet to the fire in the ongoing struggle to fix our long term care system!
http://eldercarefoundation.ca
As is now well known, Long Term Care home residents and staff have been the group hardest hit by the Coronavirus in terms of numbers and severity of cases as well as fatalities.
This is not a completely new charity, having been around for about 12 years, but it has become especially relevant during the Covid-19 pandemic. Its founder, Adam Nihmey, was inspired to set it up based on his experiences visiting both of his grandmothers while they were in long-term care.
His co-founder, Betty Hope-Gittens, who had earlier chaired Help the Aged for 25 years, gave the charity a major boost last year, when she decided to walk all 800 kilometres of the Camino de Santiago trail in Spain to celebrate her 80th birthday. She raised over $200,000 for 13 long term care homes in Ottawa. Next year and beyond, she hopes to raise further funds for the Foundation by getting clients, staff, family and friends from each of the Ottawa homes involved in a sponsored walk within the home's grounds.
You can find a profile of this remarkable woman in the May/June issue of 55 Plus, which we received with today's paper. And we can all hope that when this pandemic is just a distant memory, those of us who are still around will be holding politicians' feet to the fire in the ongoing struggle to fix our long term care system!
