We have made a real and positive difference to the lives of our clients. We have prevented the unscrupulous taking financial advantage of the vulnerable elderly, including one instance that led to an arrest. We are helping up to 48 people with various degrees of difficulty, including several disabled people who need enhanced support.

We are arranging for the installation of smaller aids such as baths and handrails for 16 and various other repairs and building adaptations are in progress. Some 29 clients have benefitted from draught proofing and improved heating, and also decorating and security work.

Our 'befriending' enterprise is supported some eight otherwise isolated clients who are having difficulty coping with lonliness and the associated stress, and we have been able to organize welfare benefit payments for 11 elderly people who hitherto had been recieving nothing. We also acted as advocate at a social security tribunal for a disabled client, which resulted in their benefits being restored.

Our project's uniqueness - the way we always visit our clients in their homes - has been recognised in Grenada's 'World in Action', Carlton's 'House of Horrors' and BBC2's 'Roof'. We are committed to helping people remain in their houses - as so many wish - and providing the assistance needed to let them do so.

Thrift Urban
Reg. Charity 1072534