What Is Bucerías Tercera Edad?
We are a registered charity in Bucerias, listed on the Mexican National Charity Registry. The listing is for the work we do with low-resource Mexican seniors and our goal of building and operating a care home, primarily for vulnerable Mexican seniors. Our charity is run on a completely voluntary basis without any administration costs.
What Is Bucerías Tercera Edad?
We are a registered charity in Bucerias, listed on the Mexican National Charity Registry. The listing is for the work we do with low-resource Mexican seniors and our goal of building and operating a care home, primarily for vulnerable Mexican seniors. Our charity is run on a completely voluntary basis without any administration costs.
Mission Statement
To enhance the quality of life of Mexico’s aging, most vulnerable citizens while enabling them to retain their dignity. Fund raise for the betterment of the seniors and ensure the most dire individuals receive social assistance to the best of our ability.
Our Vision
A full time care home, primarily to provide quality of life care for low resource Mexican seniors.
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Our History
Every story has a beginning, here’s ours:
In the winter of 2013 we were approached by the members of the Abuelos de Bucerias to provide assistance to their neediest members. We introduced sewing classes for their members, then sold the products at the local market. To raise additional revenue, we established a calendar of events which included fund raising dinners and rental of the facility. The money raised provided medications and medical care for the neediest members of the club.
We soon recognized that there were countless elderly people in need who were not members of the Seniors Club. At that time we made the commitment to reach out to those individuals and provide assistance where necessary. We sourced through donations, then distributed special care packages, clothing, linens, food, canes, cane tips, crutches, eye glasses, hearing aids, walkers and wheelchairs. We continue visits to house bound seniors. For more information, see our FaceBook Group or Bucerías Tercera Edad pages.
Our work with this group made us realize that with no nonprofit care homes in the State of Nayarit we had to help. In 2019 we hit a bump in the road, just after our First Rock ceremony and we were ready to start construction, we found our lease with the handicapped group was fraudulent. After regrouping we found land near Bucerias we were planning on buying but realized the land had no access by public transit which would make it difficult for staff and visitors as well as expensive to develop. Finally success, we accepted the offer of 5,000 square meters of land in Valle de Banderas in conjunction with the catholic church from the Ejido, a 99 year concession renewable every 20 years, at no cost.
Our First Rock ceremony was in the Spring of 2021 but had to delay due to the configuration of the property we had to redesign the facility, in 2022 the church turned over their share of the property. Land preparation started in 2022 thanks to the generous donation of 210 truck loads of special aggregate from the Ejido. The construction started in late 2022 when the foundation was laid, wall construction started in April 2023. To keep current with the stage of the construction keep watching Casa de la Paz on Facebook.
