Senior Citizen Cooperation visit

On the 24 January 2013 we visited the Senior Citizen Cooperation, a Cango member organization which works with elder people in a Beijing district.

In china, as in many countries around the world, the elder people part in the population is growing. More and more often they are suffering of social isolation and precariousness. In order to fight against this poverty, the the Senior Citizen Cooperation have been created.

This association promote health services as well as rehabilitation, psychological and social support. Some activities, dedicated to the people who are able to go out of their houses, take place in the Community Center. For all the other ones, the ones who have to stay at home and who can not take care of themselves, the association provide a home daily care service.

The staff is composed of health professionals, social workers and volunteers, mostly university students.

Yesterday our objective was to know more about the organization and inquire the necessity and possibility for an EVS Volunteer to work with them in the future.

Thanks to Costanza and Justine for the article review, specially to Capucine.