Volunteer Recruitment

• Aim: To act as companions of carers of people with intellectual disabilities, caring for their needs and giving them support.

• Service: The team makes regular visits to needy families of people with intellectual disabilities and provides different kinds of support to them, including expressing care and concern, taking parents and their children with intellectual disabilities to a restaurant, helping children with intellectual disabilities to go home and see their old parents, accompanying carers to a medical consultation, etc. Besides, the team attend religious gatherings for carers to facilitate carers’ participation.

• Targets for recruitment: Carers of people with intellectual disabilities, people from the Evangelical Free Church of China Yan Fook Church

• Aim: To give care and support to carers of people with intellectual disabilities.

• Service: To take part in and assist with mass programmes. And visit carers at festivals to provide care and support to them.

• Targets for recruitment: People from the community / Volunteer teams and staff members of corporations

• Aim:
  Getting the participants to know the physical, psychological, social and spiritual needs of carers of people with intellectual disabilities; 
  Teaching the participants skills for voluntary work with carers of people with intellectual disabilities, such as talking to them and making a visit to them; 
  Building a volunteer support network to provide suitable support to carers of people with intellectual disabilities. 

• Duration: 3 hours per session (no. of sessions and duration of each session can be negotiated)

• Place: To be decided

• No. of participants: 15-20

• Fee: To be decided