Agrosolidário Expands Care for Elderly Through Partnership with AAPI in Lucas do Rio Verde

For 13 years, the Retirees, Pensioners, and Elderly Association (AAPI) in Lucas do Rio Verde has been carrying out essential social assistance work, serving more than 50 people monthly with donations of basic food baskets, geriatric diapers, and recently, this mission gained reinforcement with soy drink. This last item began to be distributed thanks to a partnership with the Agrosolidário program, from the Soybean and Corn Producers Association of Mato Grosso (Aprosoja MT), as a way to offer a nutritional alternative to the elderly served. AAPI's president, Hercílio Girardi, says the association was founded on January 7, 2012, with the goal of supporting elderly people in vulnerable situations through essential items, as well as diapers and basic food baskets. "Aprosoja MT helps us with the soy drink, which is very important to us. It is an excellent drink that many elderly people are enjoying and even say it is the product of love," reports Hercílio. With over 400 members, the ...