Gioconda Arcos came from the Amazonas neighborhood next to her mother to retrieve the wheelchair she requested. Arcos pointed out that even though her mother was the beneficiary, the wheelchair improves the entire family environment. “My mother has a fractured spinal column and we moved her everywhere on a small stool and now we can move her with greater ease”, she said.
She was part of those 218 persons in Ambato, among them elderly adults, children and disabled persons who received various mobility implements as part of the continuous help extended by la Junta de Beneficencia de Guayaquil in coordination with international organizations. The donation consisted of semipostural wheelchairs, 23 mechanical propulsion cars, 30 walkers, 52 canes and 22 pairs of crutches. Delivery of this donation was negotiated by the Ambati Diocese, represented by Monsignor Jorge Giovanny Pazmiño who blessed all implements at the event and thanked la Junta de Beneficencia de Guayaquil and all institutions who make this work possible. “We ask la Junta to continue making these moments of joy possible with so many of our brothers who have come from all over the province, specially from all cantons and rural parrishes”, he said. So far in 2018 la Junta de Beneficencia de Guayaquil has benefitted a total of 1160 disabled persons from different sectors in the city and the country by delivering mobility implements to them.
