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Twelve volunteers accompany and help to 82 higher learning computer (03/03/2010)

82 older people are benefiting from COMBIN Volunteer Program, which holds the council's Social Care City of Cartagena, in collaboration with the Polytechnic University of Cartagena.

The program involves 12 volunteers between seniors and youth and their aim is threefold: to provide accompaniment for the elderly, to assist them outdoors and computer support.

As explained source to the Department of Social Care, thereby trying to avoid the isolation of these people, providing alternatives affective communication with the volunteers and security to those who live alone.

The functions of the volunteers vary as do the accompanying inside or outside the home, when at home, conversing, shared experiences, and reading power.

Recipients are people who have poor family relationships, neighborhood and social.

The program also serves to accompany away from home for dependent persons with mobility problems, disorientation or fear to walk alone on the street and can not do some of the developmental tasks of daily living, such as banks gestionesen, obtaining documentation for managing public services, pensioner card collection, sanitary arrangements, request appointments, visits to the doctor and other health professionals, collection of medicines, purchasing products, medicines, home appliances and so on.

It also facilitates company aasistir leisure activities such as courses and workshops in the clubs for the elderly, activities of daily centers (meals, dances, workshops.) Activities of different associations and company in hospitals.

Finally, these volunteers provide assistance to older people outdoor activities, promoting the sport and knowledge of places of interest and relationship with people of similar age who share concerns, problems and hobbies, and knowledge of new technologies and facilitating their initiation into the world of computers and the basics of computers.

Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena

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