We have a good friends, a Dominican family. He works whenever work is available, he is a master builder. The wife also works but on a pretty low salary, all three kids go to school. They normally are able to organise their budget to live fairly comfortably but when illness strikes one of the family the cost of medicines knocks their budget out of control. Today he visited us to try and borrow enough money to pay Luz & Fuerza's electric bill, of course we lent him the money, he has borrowed money before and has always religiously paid it back. We are lucky to some extent because here in LT a French charity group run a free medicine dispensary at our local free public hospital but they don't stock all types of medicine and drugs, for example they don't carry anything for heart problems. Having been brought up in the UK I am used to the concept of free or reduced price medicines.
I think this quandary stinks and if I could think of any way to help this proud family I would, any one any ideas?
Just so you know I went once to this dispensary to get some medicine but afterwards felt so ashamed of myself that that was the first and last time.
I think this quandary stinks and if I could think of any way to help this proud family I would, any one any ideas?
Just so you know I went once to this dispensary to get some medicine but afterwards felt so ashamed of myself that that was the first and last time.