Adopt Grandfather - AdoptaUnAbuelo

Dec 1, 2016

Speakers

About

AdoptGrandFather.org is a volunteer platform providing the elderly with company and enabling communication between young volunteers and care-giving institutions. AdoptGrandFather.org is especially targeted to families lacking resources to hire caregivers for elderly family members. Its main goal is to help an elderly person spend time with a volunteer, feeling heard, accompanied and loved during the nine months that the program lasts. AdoptGrandFather.org grew out of an encounter between a twenty-four year-old and a widower without descendants, who adopted the young man as a grandson, making him reflect on the problem of loneliness that the elderly suffer. AdoptGrandFather.org was subsequently created to connect the young and the elderly in a new way, helping them to meet and mutually enrich each other. The elderly person gets affection, while the volunteer learns valuable life lessons and hears vital stories. AdoptGrandFather.org closes the generation gap, offers great social value and inspires active citizens to adopt a grandparent. http://www.adoptgrandfather.org http://eu-youthaward.org/

Organizer

Categories

About European Youth Award

The European Youth Award (EYA) is a pan-European contest to motivate young people to produce socially-valuable digital projects that address the goals defined by the Council of Europe and Europe 2020. It demonstrates their potential to create innovative solutions with Internet and Mobile technology. The EYA Festival is an established platform for international knowledge-exchange and a widely recognized networking-event for future cooperation. EYA is organized by the International Center for New Media, a Non-Profit Organization based in Salzburg, Austria.

Store presentation

Should this presentation be stored for 1000 years?

How do we store presentations

Total of 0 viewers voted for saving the presentation to eternal vault which is 0.0%

Sharing

Recommended Videos

Presentations on similar topic, category or speaker

Interested in talks like this? Follow European Youth Award