Por M.Fábia P. V. Willems

 

 

Um olá pessoal! Hora de notícia boa!

Enquanto todas as mídias só espalham notícias ruins, vamos falar de coisas boas! Vamos espalham esperança.
Trata-se de um projeto maravilho da Holanda. A ideia é dar para receber.  Enquanto estudantes universitários recebem moradia gratuita na Residência das Gerações (Humanitas Resident) em Deventer, eles trabalham algumas horas por dia, dando atenção e amor aos moradores idosos.  Entre as atividades estão:

• ajudar a preparar as refeições e a servi-las,
• passear,
• jogar ou
• conversar.

Assistam ao lindo vídeo que está fazendo o maior sucesso e vejam como o projeto funciona! Embora ele esteja em inglês, é possível entender o que está acontecendo por lá, pois vocês já conhecem os detalhes desta ideia fantástica. Se preferir, visite a página web da Humanitas aqui para conhecer melhor o projeto (em holandês).
Espero que gostem e continuem espanhem por aí também notícias boas.

Sucesso a todos,

M. Fábia P. V. Willems
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SIGA-NOS NAS REDES SOCIAIS! 

Projeto pioneiro holandês: Humanitas Residens 

– Pioneering inter-generational living –

(vídeo em holandês e inglês)

Patrick is a 27-year-old student. Harry is an 89-year-old retiree. They’re roommates. AJ+h

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Drinking games, sex talk and jigsaws – this is life in a unique Dutch retirement home. Young and old live side-by-side sharing the joys of life, and the sadness of death, together.

“You have to try to throw a white ping pong ball into the beer, and then you have to drink it,” Annie Middelburg explains about the ‘beer pong’ drinking game she’s just learnt.

She’s 84… but she says that things are lot more fun when she’s spending time with youngsters like 22-year-old Jurrien Mentink.

He’s one of six students who live rent free at the Humanitas aged care home in Deventer near Amsterdam. In return, they agree to spend at least 30 hours a month socialising with the older residents.

“Students struggle to find housing in the Netherlands, especially in big cities,” Jurrien tells Aaron Lewis on Tuesday’s Dateline. “I pay nothing to live here.”

And it’s the housing crisis that prompted Humanitas to come up with this cheap way of providing better care, and company, for their residents.

“I think that the students influence the whole tone of the conversation here,” CEO Gea Sijpkes explains on the thinking behind her idea. “So that it’s not only about death, sickness and old age, but also about youth, about parties, about girlfriends.”

In fact, a lot of the talk here revolves around sex!

“They sometimes like to flirt with a young guy,” student Jordi Pronk tells Aaron. “You pass by and they whistle or wink at you or they give you a little slap on the behind.”

But inevitably these are friendships that can quite suddenly come to an end, as young and old face the final moments of life together.

“She wished me a good life, to get the most out of it,” Jurrien says of his 105-year-old neighbour shortly before she passed away. “It’s a nice feeling to help them find their final moments of happiness.”