Agape´s Home for the Elderly Peace and Good Will was founded in Sonzacate by Father Flavian Mucci on November1985 to provide a home for the elderly who ate at Agape´s Soup Kitchen. Father Flavian realized that the people from the Soup Kitchen were too old to live in the streets and needed more medical attention and care. When he celebrated Mass to pray for the first person who died at the Soup Kitchen, Father Flavian noticed everyone was crying. He found out that they cried because they were deeply moved that they had found someone who would take care of them in their old age and they would not have to die like dogs in the streets.  

At the beginning, the home for the elderly provided shelter for 16 people.  Nowadays, 100 senior citizens live at Agape. The home has capacity for 120 people. We provide the following services:

• Specialized odontological attention
• Permanent psychological attention for those who need it
• Health Education on proper hygiene and healthy eating 
• Full-time physiotherapy
• Oftalmological attention. 
• Recreation.  Excursions.  In addition, special permissions are granted to those who wish to visit their families
• Spiritual support: daily mass, Eucharistic adoration, weekly praise and prayer meetings, holy communion to the sick.

Population

 Senior citizens from any part of the country are accepted at our Home for the Elderly. However, our population mostly comes from Sonsonate, Ahuachapan, Santa Ana and San Salvador.

We make no distinction of social class. Our senior citizens may come from any social status. Some of them have relatives, but the majority of them do not have anyone to take care of them. Their ages range between 70 and 103. We provide shelter, food, clothing, medical attention, spiritual support,occupational therapy and recreation, understanding, peace and love.