Children to visit the elderly
Two hundred schoolchildren have volunteered to visit elderly people in Christchurch under a scheme organised by the Canterbury Aged People’s Welfare Council. The scheme, in its eighth year, has a record of steady growth. Last year about 180 children, aged 15 and over, made more than 10,000 hour-long visits, mostly to people in their own homes but some to rest homes. The organiser, Mrs 'Belinda Lawrence, said that 22 of Christchurch’s 26 secondary schools were now involved in the scheme and that it had this year attracted more girls than boys. The volunteer visitors enrolled yesterday at a seminar led by the Rev. Simon Acland. He said that the theme of his address had been that old people were not old people but people who had lived a long time.
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Press, 29 February 1984, Page 9
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