community service
On the week of the 4th to the 8th of December my first week of community service. My work experience had began. I chose to go to shankill old folks association to come in and help out for the week. Since I have been volunteering my time there every Wednesday for my Gaisce I was familiar with the facilities and a few of the clients. On Monday,Wednesday and Friday went as normal 10am-3.30pm and on Tuesdays and Thursdays I did meals on wheels at 9am-11am.During the daycare part of my day consisted of serving and taking away the food, bringing them to the bathroom, helping them up, decorating the Christmas tree and much more. As I had already been in the nursing home for my Gaisce I felt very comfortable around the clients and other staff and volunteers there. One thing that struck me about the day care centre was how lonely some people are are for example a lady there who has very bad Parkinson’s will be spending her first year ever on her own for Christmas. I was shocked and saddened by that her own children do not come to see her and especially on Christmas. I think it’s really important for my generation to make a bigger effort with the elderly.