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On Sunday 14th June I shall be donning the leather, straddling a Harley Davidson and cruising the the Costa Blanca as part of the BayRadio Biker Babes gang to raise funds for the Make a smile self sufficiency project. The Make a smile self efficiency programme helps mentally handicapped adults
. The unit is set in 10 hectares of land – which is slowly being regenerated by a team of volunteers, headed by Tony Grande. The unit comes under the Emaus umbrella – which most people associate and assume is just to do with children. However, these 24, aged between 18 and 30 are there because they have no-one else to care for them and so reliant on the charity for their survival.
Every Thursday Tony and a group of volunteers arrive at the home to start work. His long term project is to turn the home into a self sufficient farm and they have started by ploughing up a small section of the land. Together with some of the more able residents they have been planting tomatoes, courgettes, onions plus other vegetables which will be used by the home and any extra will be distributed among the other Emaus homes. There are many established olive trees within the 10 hectare and today the volunteers pick the olives which in turn will be exchanged by the local Co-Op for olive oil.
The facilities include a classroom, where the carers teach what many would consider simple primary school basics such as the days of the week, counting etc, but to those who are mentally challenged a real struggle. They have a recreation/chill out area with a television, games and (old) computers – except they havent been able to connect them up to the internet yet. Every Thursday Tony goes to a local Cash & Carry where he buys food, often discounted with money raised by often generous ex-pats before heading to the unit. Funding is a real issue and in these financially challenging times there basically isn´t enough to run the home. In the Winter it gets VERY cold there but in reality they don´t have the money to heat the place – it is often a toss up with food or heating, so they put on an extra jumper. It cost 800€ to fill the gas tank up - and that only lasts them 6 weeks! Recently the volunteers planted 1000 olive saplings.
Tony´s dream is to have each tree sponsored for say 50€ a year, handing each sponsor a certificate and tree number. This would potentially generate an income of 50,000€ for the unit, allowing them to run the home as it should be. They have some livestock there – a few chickens, turkeys, a couple of sheep and would like to develop this self-sufficiency program – to help the youngsters help themselves. Please take a minute to click on the video above and donate what you can to this wonderful project.
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