This is a topic dear to my heart...the elderly...as well as children...Please read and repost!
Imagine someone living in a house for 50 years, watching their children grow up and move away, and seeing the neighborhood around them deteriorate.Now picture that person barricaded in their own home at night, isolated, and afraid to go out, terrified of the gangs, the junkies and the criminals outside.
Now imagine that this person is your
own grandmother.
The elderly are often the victims of crimes, in part because they usually live alone and are seen as easy targets for scam artists, burglars, and other predators.
Columbus Police Officer Amy Welsh works third shift and has seen her share of seniors being victimized. She began to notice a pattern to the burglaries in which the elderly were targeted because of poorly lit back and side areas of their homes.
She suggested to them to install a motion security light, maybe they’d be a little safer. They just looked at her...these people are on fixed and very limited incomes and there is no way they could afford to do this. The fear in these victims was just phenomenal.So she and her husband, Tim,a Columbus Police officer also,began installing motion sensor security lights for senior citizens on their own time and their own funds.
Nana’s Night Lights was born.
The Welshes and several other volunteers—also police officers—have installed 275 lights.Our officers also educate Senior Citizens on how to better protect
themselves.Lights can only do so much