Antonio Palomino Quispe

Antonio Palomino Quispe:

Antonio ("Tonny") is one of the founders of Los Martincitos and currently serves as the institution's director.He has been working at Los Martincitos for 16 years now.Prior to this position, Tonny worked as the Assistant to the Father at San Martin Church for eight years.Tonny is a very "hands-on" director; he can be seen helping out in the kitchen with prep work, organizing meetings with various groups and helping address matters of senior abuse and other injustices.Tony is from the town of Chichas, which is situated in the Sierras, near Arequipa.He has lived in Villa El Salvador for over 30 years and remembers how difficult it was to survive there.He loves his job at Los Martincitos and he loves seeing the seniors' smiling faces every week.Tonny's salary is paid by Cross-Cultural Solutions, a charitable organization in the United States.

Adopt-a-Grandparent: My mother, Eleanor Roosevelt, Gandhi, Tony Palomino Quispe (Coordinator of Los Martincitos), Sister Jacci Glessner (Administrator of Los Martincitos), Steve Rosenthal (Founder and CEO of Cross-Cultural Solutions, the group that got me here in the first place).