House of the Fruits of Society
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Slovene Philantrophy
Non‐profit/NGO/citizen sector organization
More than 5 years
Slovene Philanthropy, Association for promotion of voluntary work, is a humanitarian organization operating in public interest since 1992. Our programs are aimed at increasing the quality of life in the community and advocacy for the socially weak. The central activity of Slovene Philanthropy is the promotion of volunteering. We firmly believe that through volunteering we can all contribute to a better and more tolerant society, based on the respect of all people regardless of their personal or living circumstances.
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Independent living solutions, Social inclusion (intergenerational practice, work and volunteering).
Active volunteers and mentors in the integenerational house are meeting once a month to discuse previous work and new ideas. The programe of activities is made acoording to the needs participants have and the resources volunteers and mentors have. When a person comes to the center the social experts is individuly working with him/her, to establish what kind of activity is him/her interested or what kind of knowledge/skills they can transmit to others,
We are working closly with organisations in the local community: municipality, center for social work, societies for elderly, humanitarian and non-profit organisation. We are exchanging the information on a week basis about the urgant needs elderly in local community have.
Our project began in 2008 and was the pilot project - in Slovenia there was no intergenerational comunity centres that would encourage integerenerational knowledge transmission. Ministry for social affairs has recognised our project as example of good practice and for the past three years they are monitoring the part of the social inclusion programe: how many people are involved, how many volunteers, the quality of life of the elderly with the connection to the participation in the activities. The outcomes are better every year, every year there is more people engaged in the ativities and the data we are collecting are showing that elderly are living more active, less lonley and their social networks is bigger.
for more than 5 years
independent (your solution is approaching a problem that has not been approached before)
The project started in 2008 and we have allready overcome some obstacles: long term funding and recognition of importance of what we are doing from local community. The national strategy for elderly is in delay, so this could slow down the process of establihing new intergenerational community centres. We are talking with 5 different municipalities about establishing an intergenerational community centres in the next few years and the plan might be realised a little later then we anticipated.
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In our team there are two social expert (with geronotology background) and a project manager. Our trainers have a lot of experience. We all have experience in coordinating community projects and also with volunteering.
Project manager are managing the project (from different activities, funding, reports to finding new opportunities for similar pojects in other regions of Slovenia). Social and community workers are working directly with elderly and volunteers: offering support, advise, preparing the individual plans, helping to prepare workshops. Volunteers and mentors are involved directly in preparing the daily activities, mentors are also leading different workshops. A volunteer can became a mentor after the training we provide for voluneers and mentors.
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2,86% foriegn ambassies, 8,71% international calls
Our target group are retired elderly people (65+, 65%). Intergenerational comunity center is open for everybody, so among our users there are also unemployed elderly (55+, 15%) and young people (20%). Both of this groups are at poverty risk. Most of our users and volunteers are women (70%), usually they retired younger and are more involved in volunteer activities. A lot of them have finished proffesional schools (seamstress), but they have other skills and knowledge, in a lot of cases traditional knowledge. There is a high number of retired medical nurses and teachers among our volunteers.
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the town of Murska Sobota, Prekmurje region
We encourage elderly to stay or become active and share the knowledge they have with others. With that they can gain again the feeling for self respect, they fell they are contributing to the society, the social network gets bigger and the feeling of lonlyness smaller. Spending time with younger generation helps the to understand them better and also helps them to overcome the prejduices based on age.
We are trying to build a more cohesive society, which is made for people of all ages. We believe in the need to changing our perspective, so we can see that all people can contribute to society regardless of the age. Integenerational cooperation and integenerational transmission of knowledge can help build a society without ageism and encourage intergenerational solidarity. There are also a lot of younger people involved in the centres activities, so with the intergenerational approach we are trying to make all the generations more aware of the problems that other generation have.
The center is located in Murska Sobota (11.500 habitants). We have included in the center activities 3.436 participants, among those there are 2.233 elderly. There is 112 active volunteers involved in the center activities, among them 62 are elderly mentors: leading there own workshops, sharing their knowledge with others. Younger people are laso included in the activities: teaching elderly computer skills. There are 380 different activities performed per year. There has been 30 different products made, which we are starting to sale under the social enterprise brand »Fruits of Society«.
Feedback-based self-assessment (you assessed the impacts based on feedback from the target group without using specific methods), Self-evaluation (you used qualitative and/or quantitative methods to assess impacts).
Mission and strategy, Organisational structure, Financial report.
We have established another intergenerational community center in the town of Vipava in the 2013. We are in the process of making arrangements with 5 other local comunities, so we could start with implementation of the project there. In the national strategy for social welfare there is intention for support for 12 regional interegenerational community centres by 2020. We are also working on establishing the social enterprise in which we will employ elderly people who have hard time finding a job.