Michael's House

ONE WORLD, ONE MISSION - HOPE FOR THE DESTITUTE ELDERLY


LIFTING UP THE DESTITUTE ELDERLY FOR 20 YEARS WITH KINDNESS

It is with a mixture of sadness and celebration that we let you know that Michael's House will end operations in 2023. Importantly, no donations will be received after March 31, 2023.

With your generosity, we plan to provide our care partners and the needy elderly population they serve with enough funds to provide support for a period of at least 8 to 12 months, and hopefully longer. It will take time for them to make arrangements for the future.

Many of our volunteer members have served the organization for years, some nearly twenty years. Our core staff, including the officers who have worked tirelessly for so long to perform the operational functions required to run our organization, have decided that it is time for them to step down. We have tried unsuccessfully to recruit dedicated replacements. Without the core individuals, Michael’s House will no longer be able to carry out necessary functions. So, it has been decided to begin the process of dissolution while it is still possible to do so in an orderly manner. We want you to know that Michael Craig, our founder now living in France, with sadness but also with joy over the long success of Michael’s House, concurs with this decision.

How It All Started

IN 2003, Michael Craig was moved to start Michael’s House when he witnessed hungry elderly people in Ethiopia being elbowed aside by more able persons who were scrambling to get grain that was being distributed from the back of a truck by a charitable agency. After the crowd departed, the elderly were left to sift in the dirt for the meager amount of food that had been spilled.

"MICHAEL'S HOUSE BEGAN with ordinary people, good friends of good friends and now, , you and your friends - tied together by the shared idea that we could succeed where governments and large organizations have not. We began with the absolute conviction that we could bring hope, dignity, and self-reliance to destitute people who are invisible, silent and without voice in the sunset of their long, hardworking lives". - The Trustees, Volunteers and Benefactors of Michael’s House.

POVERTY VERSUS DESTITUTION

Founder, Michael Craig, provides his perspective on the difference between being poor, which many of have been at some time in our life, and the destitute elderly in developing countries. See the article here

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