Vacation for a Disabled Mother

Shania Renaud Start Date: Oct 25, 2019 - End Date: Oct 24, 2020
  • Vilcabamba, Ecuador

My Travel Story

by: Shania Renaud Start Date: Oct 25, 2019 - End Date: Oct 24, 2020
My mother is disabled and has struggled with her health since I was a baby. We are on our own and just scraping by with bills, a constant pressure on her shoulders. Despite this, she's been the strongest, kindest woman I've ever known. I have my own struggles with health, and despite her own suffering, she has been a rock for all 22 years of my life. Through family deaths, a failed marriage, and serious financial struggles, she has always found a way to keep her loved ones safe and sound, so used to sacrificing things for herself that it's a struggle to remind her that shes not selfish for something so little as going out for dinner.
I am a student, working hard on scholarships and loans to make a better life for us, but I could use some help. I'd like to take her to Vilcabamba, and while I'm working to save money for it on my own, I could use a little help. I want it to be her Christmas present if at all possible.
She deserves so much, and if I could do this for her it would be something she would never forget.
Please, if you are kind enough to help, help me give my mother the kind of thing shes never been able to experience and likely never will get the chance to again.
  • Vilcabamba, Ecuador