Dozens of people attended the annual breakfast to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the rehabilitation center, which has helped more than 9 thousand addicts.
With enthusiastic participation in the annual breakfast, dozens of people who support the work of the Cottolengo Yucatan A.C. Rehabilitation Center commemorated the 40th anniversary of helping alcoholics and their families recover. The anecdotes and memories of the beginning of this project and the success stories were part of the gathering.
Despite the morning rain, people or representatives of companies and government institutions that have been key with their donations to help maintain this place came to celebrate the four decades of support that began on the initiative of Father Ignacio Kemp Lozano and whose result through these years has allowed to help more than 9,500 people who had problems with the consumption of alcoholic beverages and drugs.
“Everyone should look back, it is an important anniversary, it is four decades, this is a very important work because we help people who have problems with alcoholism and drug addiction… drug addiction is now as common as alcoholism was when Cottolengo was founded 40 years ago,” said the president of the Cottolengo Trust of Yucatan A.C., Alejandro Jorge Macari.
For Landy Cáceres Álvarez this anniversary of Cottolengo is a reason for pride because the work of this rehabilitation center is key for people who come voluntarily to seek help to return to a life without addictions.
“It is very gratifying to see the results, the first years were complicated, and difficult, almost no one came, and they did not know us, explained the interviewee, who commented that it is satisfying to have supported Father Kemp from the beginning because many families were saved,” said Cáceres Álvarez.
He emphasized that Cottolengo is a place that helps save families who suffer from these illnesses, “I have seen how the recovery of an alcoholic also helps their families, children, wives, grandchildren come to thank and because they have returned to live” he said.
For his part, the priest Raúl Ignacio Kemp Lozano, also known as “Father Kemp”, founder and director of Cottolengo, said in his message that “the key for people who enter Cottolengo to have a successful recovery is the will, faith, and desire to continue a life without addictions.”
Cottolengo offers its rehabilitation services free of charge, currently, it has 60 of the 120 places it has occupied; it is located at kilometer 23.5 of the outer ring road of Mérida between the exits to the Chichí Suárez police station and the Motul highway.
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