Oakland resident Karlya Benjamin has a vision of honoring the past and empowering the future. She feels that our elderly have so much to tell and who better to listen than our youth. Additionally, too often our seniors crave visitors. If you or your teenager have the desire to reach out and volunteer for a few hours, read a few of the details below and email me at deidrejoyner@gmail.com.
Who: We, a group of parents and teens in a project called, “Honoring the Past, Empowering the Future”
What: We will go to 3 facilities to share and interact with seniors for 1-1½ hours. There are 2 facilities and two dates so far.
Where: November 21 – 10:30 -11:30 – North Berkeley Senior Center
November 22nd – Center for Elders Independence, Berkeley – 10:00 – 11:00 am
Why: To keep us (especially teens) connected to the elderly and as human beings. By sharing with each other, we are able to appreciate the elderly as an incredible wealth of knowledge, history and strength. A lot has happened in the last 80-90 years and they’ve seen it and were a part of it. In turn, the elderly are able to see the young as possibilities to empower create and shape the world and as vessels to carry forward the knowledge of the past.
