Telephone visiting service for senior citizens

Büro für Bürgerengagement der AWO Kreisverband Köln

Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Medium German skills
Regularly
Discussed individually
  • Seniors
  • PR & Communication

About the volunteering opportunity

More and more very old people are coping with life alone at home. That is a good thing, but many of them also feel lonely. With the telephone visiting service, volunteers get involved on the phone: they answer, listen, ask questions and stay in touch.

Our volunteers, are trained in conversation skills to call older people regularly at set times. There is room for the needs of the person they are talking to, their daily joys and worries, their own life story and how they are feeling at the moment. All conversations are treated absolutely confidentially and are free of charge for the seniors.

Your Tasks

With the personal telephone call, the volunteers regularly give older people who live alone or have or can maintain little social contact a time of joy and human closeness. It is as simple as it sounds - a visit on the phone.

There are no age limits for the telephone visiting service: whether 20, 50 or 80 years old - everyone is welcome for this location-independent and flexible service with us.

Services

  • Guidance by professionals
  • Exchange of experience
  • Reimbursement of costs incurred
  • Further training/qualification offers
  • free events
  • regular information
  • Activity certificates

What's needed

For this volunteering opportunity, intermediate German skills are required.

specific requirements

  • Age: without restriction
  • Certificate of good conduct: not necessary
  • Empathy
  • Ability to listen well

Time required

Regularly
Discussed individually

Where?

Büro für Bürgerengagement der AWO Kreisverband Köln

The Office for Civic Commitment of the AWO Cologne is a consulting service. People who are willing to volunteer will receive advice and will be placed in organisations that work with volunteers. Further priority will be given to LESEMENTOR Cologne, young volunteers, further education and voluntary refugee work.

More about the organisation
Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Medium German skills
Regularly
Discussed individually
Köln, Nordrhein-Westfalen
Medium German skills
Regularly
Discussed individually