Your role as a Volunteer Befriender (VB) is to:
- Support the seniors in their intervention sessions with the horses either at EQUAL or NTUC Health Nursing Home (Chai Chee) [CCNH]
- Standby at EQUAL stable to assist wheelchair-bound nursing home residents up and down their bus
- Help to porter wheelchair bound residents around the horse stable or the nursing home
- Befriend seniors through the activities
- Ensure safety of seniors throughout the programme
- Interact with animals
Requirements (Please read before applying):
- Age range: 17 - 35 years old
- Preferably for volunteers to be comfortable conversing in Mother Tongue
- Must attend IN-PERSON Orientation and Training session to learn how to operate a wheelchair and interacting with the seniors and horses
Reporting Locations:
1) EQUAL Stable: 100 Jalan Mashhor Singapore 299177
2) NTUC Health Nursing Home (Chai Chee) [CCNH]: 35 Chai Chee St, Singapore 468984
Orientation & Training:
- O&T 1: 10 Jan (Sat), 9am-10.30am
- O&T 2: 17 Jan (Sat), 10am-11.30am
- Location: 100 Jalan Mashhor Singapore 299177
Session Details:
- Session 1: 13 Jan (Tue), 2.15pm-4pm (CCNH)
- Session 2: 20 Jan (Tue), 2.15pm-4.30pm (CCNH)
- Session 3: 27 Jan (Tue), 2.15pm-4.30pm (EQUAL)
- Session 4: 3 Feb (Tue), 2.15pm-4.30pm (EQUAL)
- Session 5: 10 Feb (Tue), 2.15pm-4.30pm (EQUAL)
- Session 6: 24 Feb (Tue), 2.15pm-4.30pm (CCNH)
- Session 7: 3 Mar (Tue), 2.15pm-4.30pm (EQUAL)
- Session 8: 10 Mar (Tue), 2.15pm-4.30pm (CCNH)
Please note:
- All confirmed volunteers will be reached out via EMAIL - Please ensure the email address provided is accurate.
- In the event of an oversubscription, volunteers who can commit to more sessions will be given the priority. All other volunteers will be waitlisted (pending).
This opportunity is in partnership with EQUAL and Care Corner Singapore.