Volunteers at daycare center display great vitality

The opening of a citizen journalism class at Touwu Digital Opportunity Center (頭屋數位機會中心) was aimed at empowering local residents to pick up the video camera and start recording and making news reports about stories in their own community. With many local people having already joined the growing ranks of citizen journalists to record the community’s combination of daycare and home services for the elderly, as well as the care provided for the ageing local population at Xiangshan Park Residential Care Home, it is clear that the citizen journalism class has been a roaring success.  

At the daycare center, there is usually a group of young-spirited senior citizens from the community providing voluntary service that includes working on the vegetable garden, tidying up the flower garden and taking care of recycling. Everyone lends a helping hand around the center and jointly partakes in the more relaxing activities too, such as doing exercise and singing karaoke etc. Tu Qing-peng (涂慶榜) is one of many care attendants at Xiangshan Park Residential Care Home. He stressed that in the hope of ensuring elderly residents are happy and healthy in their twilight years, he cares for them just as though he were caring for a member of his own family.

Volunteers at daycare center display great vitality

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(以下是中文對照)

期頤志工日照中心展活力

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苗栗縣頭屋數位機會中心開設公民新聞課程，希望培力社區民眾拿起攝影器材，記錄自己社區的故事，自己的新聞自己報導。在地的民眾也開始擔任公民記者、記錄當地結合老人日間照護、居家服務，並提供在地老化、安養服務的「象山園日照中心」。

在這個日照中心，平常會有一群社區裡面的健康長輩來做志工服務，包括整理菜園、花園與資源回收等，大家並一起活動筋骨、唱卡拉OK等休閒活動。而象山園日照中心有多位的照顧服務員，辛勤的照顧園內長輩，其中有一位是男性照服員涂慶榜，他也分享自己的工作心情，把長輩當作自己家中的長輩來照顧，希望陪伴老人家度過快樂健康的晚年生活。