The Maltese train helpers in visiting and accompanying services. The training is offered continuously.
The Malteser Relief Service has started training the first helpers in the visiting and accompanying service in the Northern Breisgau area. The basic module was recently offered in the rooms of the Sankt Martin social station in Endingen. In the theoretical part, the course leader Marija Galjer, consultant for the social voluntary work of the Maltese in the Archdiocese of Freiburg, provided information about the legal and organizational framework. Skills such as using wheelchairs or walking aids were also practiced. Last but not least, it was about very practical tips and sharing experiences. The participants now also know the basics of conducting conversations with people in need of help.
The visiting and accompanying service is an offer that is usually offered to seniors in larger cities. The target group is people whose relatives live further away or who do not have many contacts in their immediate environment. Experience in recent years has shown that there is now an ever-increasing need for the service in rural areas. Marija Galjer: “As a rule, the demand is higher than the number of volunteers who make themselves available.” The diocesan representative is therefore not worried that the service will not quickly develop into a permanent component of social medical care. This is shown by similar projects that the Maltese have carried out nationwide.
Jürgen Schöchlin, the representative of the Malteser Nördlicher Breisgau, is happy that a first step towards the qualification of volunteers could now be taken and thanked Marija Galjer for coming to Endingen with her specialist expertise. Further training elements, such as dealing with people with dementia, will follow at the beginning of December. All volunteers are of course trained in first aid by the Maltese people.
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