Hedzoleh Seniors

Hedzoleh Seniors Healthy

Living Program

 The Hedzoleh Senior Healthy Living Program proposes to create opportunity to seniors in our community to keep fit and socially connected through social activities, including cooking and tasting competitions, lifetime storytelling, reading challenge in African languages, chair zumba, board games, and music therapy.

Project Proposal

The program is a year-long program designed to create opportunity to seniors in Greater Vancouver to keep fit and social connected through social activities, including cooking and tasting competitions, lifetime storytelling, reading challenge in African languages, chair zumba, board games, and music therapy. The seniors will be drawn from the African and Caribbean communities in the Greater Vancouver Area.

The Program will run in five phases

 The first phase: will involve planning of the program, which will include a series of meetings by stakeholders to secure logistics, book venues, hire staff, recruitment volunteers and participants.

The second phase: will be dedicated to orientation of participants.

The third phase :will involve will involve Music Therapy: Seniors will select their favourite childhood song, teach fellow participants to sign it and life-time storytelling.

The fourth phase: is tagged “a healthy body in a healthy mind”, and it will comprise chair zumba, and other physical activities.

The fifth phase: will be cooking and tasting contests.

Objectives

The programme will have multiple benefits, including, but not limited to the following:

(a) Improved social communication and social networking.

(b) New friendships. Improved health. Learning new and different of staying healthy. Improved spiritual , physical, and cognitive health.

(c) Become financially and digitally literate, as they learn how to use the computer, smartphone, and surf the internet.

(d) Establish and maintain lines of communication within the family and friendship circles

(e) Checkmate social isolation that seniors face in our community, which will lead to less mental health and psychogenic problems, such as depression

(f) Boost the self-esteem and confidence of the participating seniors.

(g) An opportunity to interact with seniors will curtail or ameliorate social isolation among seniors brings relief to family and community members

(h) Learn from seniors the digital skills, as they will impart their knowledge and skills to their friends and families, and by extension to the community

Outreach

We plan on developing an outreach and communication strategy that will include the use of multimedia channels, including a virtual townhall.

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