Portal de Molina de Segura
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On the International Day of Human Solidarity, the City of Molina de Segura, through the Department of Social Welfare, takes stock of the implementation, last June, of the Volunteer Project FOR AND FOR OLDER.
This initiative is aimed at people over 60 years of age in the municipality, from a double perspective: those who want to collaborate in the different programs and projects, developed in a continuous, altruistic and free way;
and those elderly who require a volunteer to meet their demands and needs.
The objective of this project is to ensure that the elderly group puts their life project in the foreground, connecting with their environment through social support volunteering for elderly people who live alone and need support and / or attention in resource management, as well as as in projects of insertion and social participation.
Since its launch in June, the most significant thing is that, with its limited travel, the project already has:
A bag of 22 volunteers, of which seven are carrying out the following voluntary actions:
Accompaniment, leisure and free time.
Support in therapeutic activities at home, supervised by specialists.
Accompaniment to minors at the request of the Family and Coexistence Program.
Support in the Integra Service.
Service to the elderly in small repairs in the home, at the request of the Dependency Program.
Talks about health, in the project of immigrant women of the Council.
Painting classes, to Seniors Association.
10 demands, direct ones through users and / or relatives of the same, and others through the Social Services programs themselves.
"Participation in volunteer work makes seniors feel useful and integrated into the environment, preventing risks of social marginalization and physiological deterioration," says the Councilor for Social Welfare, Angel Navarro García.
"Being connected to institutions, social services, etc., participating in volunteer activities, to the extent of their own possibilities, is a guarantee of mental health, it is a way of feeling alive, and of verifying that for others we have a value and a meaning, as well as a way of approaching reality and relativizing our difficulties in contact with those of others.In addition, the group of older people has extensive knowledge and experiences that can make their participation as volunteers very useful ".
The Volunteer Project FOR AND FOR OLDER is about:
Involve the group of elderly people in social volunteer actions.
Promote from the Social Services Center community participation, solidarity actions and the involvement of the neighbors in the solution of the problems that occur in their immediate environment.
Respond to the demand made by the citizens of the municipality, who in solidarity want to exchange services and activities.
Carry out participatory actions in the community with volunteers.
Maintain contact with the social networks of the municipality and coordination with the associative fabric of the area in order to avoid overlaps in the proceedings.
Encourage and give continuity to an MOTOR group of older volunteers.
Establish specific measures of motivation and integration of volunteers.
Connect and initiate the recruitment of the most active older people in the neighborhoods, associations of the elderly, neighbors, etc.
Manage the group of volunteers, through training and support.
The groups or sectors to be attended are the following:
Seniors and Dependency.
Childhood and adolescence
Support to associations and non-profit entities.
And within the sectors indicated, which are framed by the needs that can be met by volunteers, the intervention of these can be specified in the following TASKS:
Seniors and Dependency.
Realization of activities for the improvement of cognitive abilities.
Accompaniment at home.
Reminder in the administration of medicines.
Accompaniment in the completion of procedures and procedures.
Accompaniment of leisure and free time (walks, visits, and cultural activity).
Small home repairs that do not require the intervention of professionals.
Participation in awareness and training campaigns.
All those activities that are determined from the program provided that the activities of volunteers do not replace, in any case, paid work activities.
Accompaniment in activities organized by other entities.
Support for therapeutic activities recommended by specialists.
Childhood and adolescence
Realization of activities for the improvement of cognitive abilities.
Accompaniment at home.
Substitute grandparents
School support tasks aimed at minors and adolescents.
Support for therapeutic activities recommended by specialists.
All those activities that are determined from the program provided that the activities of volunteers do not replace, in any case, paid work activities.
Support to associations and non-profit entities.
Support for activities organized in the area, by non-profit entities.
Participation in awareness campaigns and training in Associations.
All those activities that are determined from the program provided that the activities of volunteers do not replace, in any case, paid work activities.
At the beginning of this year, the Department of Social Welfare saw the need to create a volunteer project from the Senior Unit.
The starting signal for the event was the First Volunteer Days for and for Seniors, which were held on February 22 and 23 at the Virginia Martínez Jiménez Auditorium (MUDEM).
Once the project is prepared, in June society is presented, and, as of that moment, a dissemination campaign is launched, in the first place, through brochures, talks at senior centers and associations of the municipality, and a bag is constituted where the demands of people who want to volunteer, and the demands arising from the needs of the specific programs of the council itself.
And there is also a service and information point for volunteering, one day a week, on Wednesdays, at the Centro Integral La Cerámica.
Two social workers work on the project.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Molina de Segura
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