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Community IT Support For Islington’s Older Residents – SVW 2015

Charities, Student Volunteering Week.

The official dates for Student Volunteering Week were from the 23rd February to the 2nd March, but at City, we wanted more projects available, so started a week early, on the 16th February. There was at least one event each day and being a member of the Volunteering Steering Committee, we were each assigned and given an opportunity to lead our own project; I chose the Community IT Support drop-in sessions at St Luke’s community centre.

The drop-in sessions involved helping Islington’s older residents with any IT, computing or gadget queries, including teaching how to print documents, setting up e-mail accounts, the differences between various internet browsers, tips on the best search engines to use and any phone difficulties. It was very rewarding to see how offering our skills would help the older residents of Islington for life! DSC01801

Individually we were each in charge of promoting our event and helping to recruit volunteers, luckily my project filled up very quickly and many volunteers arrived on the day. The room got very busy, where some of the older residents were paired up with two volunteers each! A group of broadcasting students also attended the event, to interview myself on my opinion of the views that young people have about volunteering, as well as filming various parts of the day for their project.

It was a fun and rewarding experience and it was a great opportunity for everyone involved to meet new people, build confidence and develop some skills, whilst helping the local community.

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Thank you to everyone who came to volunteer, the older residents at the drop-in sessions, the staff at the St Luke’s community centre and to everyone else who came to support!

IT support at St Luke's with City University students

 

 

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