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“La Junta de Beneficencia is a great Institution…..” |
 Arturo Bravo Alvarez was born in Cuenca and in 1950 came to Guayaquil to work. He is 79 years, and stranded from his loved ones, found in Hospicio Corazón de Jesús a place he can call “home". I feel as though it is my own home.
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“When someone is starving and homeless, the Junta is there to extend a helping hand” |
 Hilda Villamar-Cabrera is 83 years old and comes from Balzar County, Guayas Province. She made the decision to come to Guayaquil to live at Hospicio Corazón de Jesús of the Junta de Beneficencia de Guayaquil, due to the difficult economic situation her family was suffering. “ I didn’t want to witness the desperation of my daughter while working to support her two little children and myself as a heavy burden”. |
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"I am deeply grateful with Fundación La Vid and Junta de Beneficencia for the wheelchair they donated to my son” |
 Six year old David Rodríguez has cerebral palsy as a consequence of meningitis. His mother, Fanny Proaño cares for him with motherly dedication. David’s mother Fanny, got in contact with Fundación La Vid of Píntag, -Loja Province, an institution through whom Junta de Beneficencia de Guayaquil donated wheelchairs. |
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"I can now bring her everywhere in her wheelchair" |
 Narcisa de Jesús Intriago Intriago suffers from a congenital disease that impedes her from living a normal life. She cannot speak, see nor walk. Her mother, Mireya Intriago, has cared for her for 37 years in the Isla Trinitaria neighborhood in Guayaquil, in hopes of someday being able to give her a better quality of life. In the meantime, she has had to carry her daughter on her back just to move her around. |
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“I am so grateful to the JBG for having given me the opportunity to grow as a person” |
 Milena Apolinario, from the canton of Libertad, entered the orphanage Hogar Calderón Ayluardo when she was six years old due to a difficult home situation. Her mother, an illegal immigrant from Colombia, was pregnant, and her father had passed away. Her family did not have the economic means to adequately support Milena and her younger sister. This girl’s home, run by the Junta de Beneficencia de Guayaquil, granted Milena a place to live, as well as food, clothing and education in a private school in Guayaquil. She also received constant spiritual guidance from the nuns at the orphanage congregation.
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