Santa Cruz n’est pas la seule ville en Californie qui organise de telles visites. Le Cupertino Senior Center’s Friendly Visitor Program offre maintenant un service bénévole de visiteurs pour les personnes âgées demeurant dans les environs de la ville de Cupertino. Le but du programme est simple: rendre visite pendant un heure à une personne âgée qui est confine chez-elle dûe à un handicap ou à un âge trop avancé. La plupart des bénévoles ne font que jaser mais plusieurs vont lire un livre, faire une marche, aider à écrire des cartes ou le courier.
Une bénéficiaire du programme, Mary Lou Bronzea, une dame de 79 confinée à un fauteuil roulant depuis les années 80s, ne parle qu’en bien de son visiteur bénévole, Dick Schuster: “Il est quelqu’un envoyé du ciel.”
Comme quoi, les anges ne sont pas seulement dans le ciel!
Source: http://www.mercurynews.com/san-jose-neighborhoods/ci_15581698
----------------------------------------
We all know that elderly are often abandoned by their friends and family. A few years ago, I belonged with the kids to an organization, I You Venture, where I was visiting a century-old French lady. Because she didn’t have any family member visiting her, it brought her comfort to see me weekly.
Santa Cruz is not the only city in California to organize such visit. The Cupertino Senior Center’s Friendly Visitor Program now offers a volunteer service to visit elderly that live in the Cupertino vicinity. The goal of the program is simple: just be friendly for an hour a week with someone whose age and mobility are keeping them inside. The majority of the volunteers only chat for this hour but a few also will read a book, take a walk, help write cards or the mail.
One of those program benefactor, Mary Lou Bronzea, who is 79 and has been in a wheelchair since the mid-1980s, only has good words about her volunteer visitor, Dick Schuster: “He’s like someone sent from heaven.”
Angels are not only in sky!
Source: http://www.mercurynews.com/san-jose-neighborhoods/ci_15581698
No comments:
Post a Comment