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1 out of 7 elderly people could die from COVID-19. Older generations face potentially greater life-threatening risk if infected. Hogar de Cristo has over 4,500 users in our shelters, residences, and in-home senior care programs, throughout Chile. Most have been living in poverty and social exclusion, so they bring additional health conditions and poor nutrition that exacerbate the impact of the illnesses, like asthma, pulmonary conditions, etc. It is besides other related illnesses due to their poverty conditions.

Hogar de Cristo is not just following health guidance from Government Agencies but also taking its own proactive actions and extensive protocols to prevent and get our programs secured and equipped to take care of elderly users. Certainly, it will require massive sources of financing to buy, among others: 10,000 masks; 7,000 bottles of germicides, alcohol; 200 non-contact thermometers, and many daily food pouches, isolation suits, and hundreds of portable oxygen kits, etc.

Stay safe and take care of yourself-family, but also think of others more vulnerable and act accordingly. It will make all the difference. Examples of some daily supplies needed: Masks US$ 10; hygiene kits US$ 15; daily food pouches US$10; non-contact thermometer US$ 60; oxygen kit US$ 1,500