The Sunny View Persevering with Care Retirement Group performed host to some GOATTs on Oct. 28—not essentially the best of all time (observe the additional T), however particular nonetheless.
Jack York and Francis Njuakom, co-founders of the GOATT (Giving Older Adults Instruments to Thrive) Fund, visited the Cupertino retirement group to thank Sunny View workers for his or her assist in elevating over $50,000 to assist Njuakom run a senior middle and different initiatives in his group in Cameroon, Africa.
York heard about Njuakom’s plans for a senior middle on the International Growing older Convention in Perth, Australia in 2016. Residents of Sunny View’s Summer season Home Reminiscence Care use the iN2L (It’s By no means too Late) app York created to assist seniors deal with Alzheimer’s.
York was impressed with Njuakom’s plans and gave him $500 as seed cash, pondering he would by no means see it once more. However after 5 months, York obtained a thank-you letter from Njuakom accounting for each penny. This impressed York to ask Njuakom how he might be of additional assist.
Collectively, the 2 males established the GOATT Fund, to which donors may give $250 and have a goat named after them.
When York advised former Sunny View government director Sally Plank concerning the fund, she reached out to residents and workers for donations and solicited fundraising assist from the Sunny View Basis and Entrance Porch, operator of the retirement group.
Throughout his go to final month, Njuakom confirmed Sunny View residents how the funds raised helped present greater than 8,000 folks in his group with clear water, colleges, goats and provides along with supporting a senior middle with dementia consciousness and knowledge.