Golden Afterglow: Volunteer groups鈥 services launched
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The Shanghai Youth League yesterday collectively launched the services of a total of 210 groups of young volunteers who serve senior citizens.
The volunteers are involved in a campaign called Golden Afterglow which encourages young volunteers to provide services to senior citizens in need.
Besides healthcare services, the volunteers also entertain seniors with art, teach them to create handicrafts, impart legal and financial knowledge, and give company to those who live alone.
One of the volunteer groups is the Team Dandelions of Putuo District鈥檚 Central Hospital. The team, made up of doctors from the hospital, has been pairing up with elderly people in need and reacting to their emergent needs since 2013.
Xu Juncai, an 86-year-old man who lives alone in Caoyang No. 4 Village, a residential complex near the hospital, said his life was saved twice in 2018, thanks to the doctor volunteer, Wu Xiaojie, he was paired with.
On a day in May 2018, when Xu got up at 4am for toilet, he suddenly fell down to the ground and began vomiting badly. He struggled to reach the phone and called Wu who feared that he could have a cerebral infarction and helped him call an ambulance immediately.
鈥淎t the same time, she arranged a 鈥榞reen tunnel鈥 for me at the hospital, so that I got medical help in time and recovered very well,鈥 Xu recalled. A similar incident happened in November that year, and thanks to Wu, he was saved again.
鈥淭hey鈥檙e my golden crutch,鈥 Xu said of the volunteers.
Wu, who has been working at the hospital since 2010, said she and her fellow volunteers never turn off their mobiles, always ready to react to the needs of the elderly people they serve. They also visit the seniors every week to know their problems.
At Shanghai Normal University, a group of students who study adult and preschool education carved a niche in serving seniors by advising them on how to raise their grandchildren.
In Shanghai, grandparents often have to step in to take care of their grandchildren most of the time, because usually both parents are working. Through their investigation, the students found that the grandparents are quite confused about how to make the children eat, how to communicate with them and how to teach them basic skills.
By sharing their knowledge acquired from their study, the students said they have helped about 1,200 families since they started to give talks in communities in 2018, and the textbooks they have compiled for the purpose will likely be recommended by the city鈥檚 education commission as teaching material for lifelong education.
Besides, there are also volunteers who offer free anniversary photo services to the elderly and who take and compile notes of what they say about their life so that they can be passed on.
Local communities seeking such volunteer services can contact the Shanghai Youth League at 6169-0175 and 6169-0107.
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