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What is Season for Caring?
Each year the Austin American Statesman’s Season for Caring program highlights the needs of featured families from 12 local nonprofits. Readers donate money, goods, and services which help the featured family first and then help the agency’s other neediest families. Funds raised through this initiative will go directly to support families served by Hospice Austin and Austin Palliative Care with essential needs like rent, utilities, and groceries.
Hospice Austin
Ana Laura Martinez Aranda’s days are filled with the unwavering dedication of a daughter caring for her mother, Olga Aranda Guzman. Since they arrived in the United States, Ana has been by her side, a constant presence. Once here, their journey was still far from easy. The pair have even spent time living in their car. With Olga’s extensive medical needs, including the use of various pieces of medical equipment, this time was especially difficult.
Click here to read more about their journey and how you can help
Austin Palliative Care
Jazmin Campbell, 21, has faced a long struggle with medical care, often feeling unheard and misunderstood. Eventually, Jazmin was diagnosed with Stiff Person’s Syndrome, a rare autoimmune neurological disorder. She was under the care of Hospice Austin for seven months before her condition stabilized, and now continues her treatment with Austin Palliative Care, an affiliate of Hospice Austin.
Click here to read more about their journey and how you can help
Past Recepients
Joey Jimenez – A Season for Caring
When Joe Jimenez was dying after suffering a heart attack and stroke in 2016, his 21-year-old son, Joey, promised his father that he would remain at home to look after his mother and younger brother. It was a responsibility he took seriously.
Two Lives, Transformed
The Austin-American Statesman’s Season for Caring campaign has made a profound difference in the lives of our past two recipients.
As you may remember, our 48-year-old ALS patient Marcelo Gracia and his son, Gael, were featured in the Austin American-Statesman’s Season for Caring campaign in December.
A Season for Caring
Gael Gracia used to have to leave his father, who has ALS, alone for over 8 hours at a stretch when he went to work. That all changed when the family was accepted into the Austin American-Statesman’s Season for Caring program.
Season for Caring
Jacob knows more about heartache than any 26-year-old should. His wife, Adriana, died of cervical cancer in August, leaving him to raise Emely, their four-year-old daughter who has Down Syndrome. Last week, Emely was diagnosed with leukemia.
Finding Steve
Just so you won’t worry, this story has a happy ending. It starts off sad, because Curtis, a 50-year-old Hospice Austin patient, had lost his cat, Steve, and normally lost cat stories don’t end well. You may remember Curtis from a previous Season of Caring Campaign...
