Linking volunteers and the elderly people with technology to enhance wellbeing and end isolation. Also include Welsh culture elements promotion in the project.
Since last Spring 2020 until February 2021, there was a significant increase in loneliness among the adult population in the UK during the pandemic.
Results from Opinions and Lifestyle Survey (OPN) from Office for National Statistics:
Unemployment, anxiety and old age are the main factors.
We all feel lonely at some point. Even living with our family, lockdown alone is enough to create tension that leads to a relationship breakdown, which causes a great sense of loneliness.
Being cut out from the world, getting weaker, neglected at home, leaving the workplace, deaths of spouses and friends, illness etc. are making them vulnerable to loneliness.
More than a million older people say they go for over a month without speaking to a friend, neighbour or family member.
Befriends them by giving them a call to brighten up their days.
Requires speakers of the following languages: Cantonese, Hakka or Mandarin (DBS Check required)
Please print out the form, and send us back the completed consent form to sign up.
You can either take a photo of the completed form and send it to [email protected], or you can cut out the completed lower part and send it to our office with the following details:
Volunteer Coordinator
Chinese In Wales Association, The Grand Multicultural Hub,
Swansea Grand Theatre,
Singleton Street,
Swansea
SA1 3QJ
