He’s hard of hearing, his eyesight is failing and he broke his hip in a recent fall. It’s never likely to mend. Despite it all, Manuel Angel Siles Siles, at the tender age of 103, is showing no signs of slowing down. Born in a village near Cebadilla on April 27, Mr. Siles has spent a lifetime as a farmer and a father. He has 12 children, 60 grandchildren, and he believes, about 40 great grandchildren.

He is nursing the youngest, Joseph David, who is seven months old. “Yes, I am so, so, old,” he told us this week, as he tried out his new wheelchair, courtesy of the Do It Foundation. “This is wonderful,” said one of his daughters, Adina Siles Obando.

“What else could one ask for?”