AdoptGrandFather | Active Citizenship | #EYA16
Channel: European Youth Award
Date: 2016-11-24

AdoptGrandFather is the 2016 winner in the category Active Citizenship.
Team: Alberto Cabanes
Website: https://www.adoptaunabuelo.org/

Description: 
AdoptGrandFather.org is a volunteer platform providing the elderly with company and enabling communication between young volunteers and care-giving institutions. AdoptGrandFather.org is especially targeted to families lacking resources to hire caregivers for elderly family members. Its main goal is to help an elderly person spend time with a volunteer, feeling heard, accompanied and loved during the nine months that the program lasts. AdoptGrandFather.org grew out of an encounter between a twenty-four year-old and a widower without descendants, who adopted the young man as a grandson, making him reflect on the problem of loneliness that the elderly suffer. AdoptGrandFather.org was subsequently created to connect the young and the elderly in a new way, helping them to meet and mutually enrich each other. The elderly person gets affection, while the volunteer learns valuable life lessons and hears vital stories. AdoptGrandFather.org closes the generation gap, offers great social value and inspires active citizens to adopt a grandparent.


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About EYA: 
EYA is an unique European-wide movement of young innovators who never stop learning, questioning and improving the world we live in. We believe in the power digital technologies can have to create a postive impact on society!

Several activities and events are organized throughout the year and can be found all over Europe! There is its flagship and name-giving initiative: The European Youth Award (EYA contest) and its winners event (EYA Festival); along with coding events (e.g. SHacks (social hackathons), Game Jams), the Youth for Innovation (YFI) programs, mentorship programs and more!

https://eu-youthaward.org/