Even standing still takes nourishment.
Thank you for contemplating a donation today, and for learning more about where your money goes. The aim is to create a world of transparency, especially where charitable endeavours are concerned, because your good intentions are worth honouring with due respect and diligence. Being upfront right off the bat, 50% of every donation made, via this site only, goes directly into The Longevity Fund, which is in place to keep open resources available and running indefinitely, mostly for those who come to be reliant on them during recovery or times of hardship. The remaining 50% goes into a single pot, the purpose of which is to fund future creative endeavours managed by The Ana Maria Foundation. Once the fund hits a capped amount, all donations redirect to the creative pot. The fund is about stabilising a leaning post, that is all.
*Plan pending the approval of a specialist accountant.
A whole human being can expect a long healthy life when they take care of themselves and keep moving, and our longevity is reliant on motion, not standing still, therefore, we intend to use your contributions to keep up with the world. Every endeavour starts off small, but every seed, when nourished with good energy and sunshine, can grow into a mighty oak, strong enough to withstand the winds of time. Storms will come to rattle the branches, leaves will fall, but rooted as we intend to be, with your help, we aim to last beyond the lives of each of us here today, which is what this longevity fund is all about. We intend to create a space that doesn’t disappear, to make safety the welcoming factor here.
This will be a growing space built upon the values of mutual trust, faith, honour, humility and equality, a space with infinite capacity for growth and change. We must take note of our responsibility to those yet to be born, learn from those already dead, and ready our children with all they will need, the right knowledge and wisdom, which I happen to call, Love.
All the littles make lots, no amount is too small and we are thankful for every single penny. Blessings to all with faith enough in our purpose to support this platform, and beyond.
So, why the longevity fund?
The answer is simple really, back in 2021 we watched a beautiful online support platform for those trying to recover from their addictions fall away into the ether… It was truly sad since the content was innovative and relevant, and such a great change was present in the new, less-stigmatised stories told about it all. It was fueled by experience and science, two of life’s more reliable teachers. You could tell the creator was devastated in their email notice sent to all who had been learning from their hard work, and the main explanation for this occurrence was a lack of financial aid and funding. We hope to track down that person and invite them to offer their contribution to this platform eventually, or another just like it.
Sustainable development, ethical workmanship and reliable long-term service, that is where your support towards The Longevity Fund will go!
Standing in solidarity…
Having watched that beautiful website fall due to nothing more than a lack of funding, we place our faith in humanity, and ask those of you who are able, to support the running, maintenance and development of this website, primarily, the Self-Help Library. To educate oneself, about oneself, is the key to our human evolution, as well as it being the way we break free of cycles of suffering.
In addition to the development of self-preservation techniques, resilience building, and self-management tools, we intend to develop a children’s platform, thus preparing younger minds for life in a new world we have yet to imagine. It takes a lot to keep our projects, websites and other developments up and running, which includes human-energy, and the Longevity Fund is in place to ensure that once we all die, which we undoubtedly will, that this platform of global support, and the others directly attached to it (i.e. the children’s platform), will survive.
Donate Here, and make all this dreaming a reality, we thank you.
A home of creativity!
Ana Maria Santuario is a working class woman, the ground is her home. She decided to grow The Ana Maria Foundation on the basis of ‘sweat-equity’, meaning that she designed the self-help library and a whole bunch of resources in an attempt to make a dream come true. Should she earn enough money, she will simply fund the longevity of the endeavour herself. In the end, the fund will be in place to uphold all that is created, it will become the roots holding steady every branch that The Foundation grows.