Grandparents have received firewood and thank each of you!

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Dear friends! Many thanks for the help to the grandparents from the Smolensk region. For the thirteen wards of the Old Age in Joy Foundation, we purchased firewood, which helped make their homes warm in winter. A whole car of firewood arrived at Anna Nikolaevna's house in the Smolensk region, Demidovsky district, and while volunteers helped put firewood in a woodpile, Anna Nikolaevna shared her story, which we want to convey firsthand: Anna Nikolaevna's mother dreamed that her daughter would connect her life with medicine. After graduation, Anna went to study at a medical school in Leningrad. Then she was sent to work as a nurse at a secondary educational school in the city of Demidov. So she returned to her small homeland. Then Anna Nikolaevna was offered a job in the Demidovskaya CRH as a children's nurse. Anna Nikolaevna worked there for 32 years. Hundreds of babies have passed through her caring hands. Anna Nikolaevna lives in a communal apartment without amenities, with stove heating. A few years ago, the neighbors on the floor above had a fire, during which Anna Nikolaevna's apartment was flooded with water and foam. Not only the walls were damaged, but also household appliances and furniture. All this time, Anna Nikolaevna is trying to fix something in the apartment, but with a minimum pension it turns out to buy only food, medicines, and pay for utilities. How glad she was when she got a whole mountain of firewood! Her house will be warm this winter. She seemed to be rejuvenated by emotions.

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Grandparents need to be heated - firewood is needed!

Many people in the "Old Age is Joy" Foundation live in homes with stove heating. To keep the house from getting damp and rotting, it needs to be heated almost all year round (at the same time you can cook food). And for the cold season you need "two cars" of firewood, as the grandmothers and grandfathers themselves say. Each such "machine" costs 10-12 thousand rubles - and the pensions of the elderly ward are also about 10 thousand per month.

The grandmothers and grandfathers deny themselves the necessities of life, save on food and medicine, and save a penny a year for firewood. They walk around the house in boots and coats. They take care of every log.

For example, Valentina Ivanovna Bogdanova (on photo) from the town of Velizh of Smolensk region is 76 years old. She has been working in agriculture for 40 years - in the fields, with the cattle. Her salary was not large so she earned a very low pension but lost her health. A large part of her pension is spent on medicines. And in winter it is necessary to heat the house twice a day, otherwise not only the grandmother, the water in a bucket can freeze.

There are hundreds, if not thousands, of such grandmothers and grandfathers. Now we need money to pay for firewood for 13 people.

It is best to buy firewood in the summer: it should have time to dry out, and it won't happen in damp weather. It takes more than a day to put the firewood together. In addition, in the autumn slush or snowdrifts, many villages simply can't be reached by a heavily laden vehicle. Suppliers also raise prices for the heating season.

Let's help grandparents - so they know they won't freeze in winter!