{"id":8716,"date":"2015-11-30T11:48:52","date_gmt":"2015-11-30T11:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jomec.co.uk\/intercardiff\/?p=8716"},"modified":"2015-11-30T11:48:52","modified_gmt":"2015-11-30T11:48:52","slug":"international-students-could-help-old-people-in-cardiff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/global-city\/international-students-could-help-old-people-in-cardiff","title":{"rendered":"International students could help old people in Cardiff"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_9849\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9849\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/13908526896_ce8afdf91e_o-1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-9849 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/13908526896_ce8afdf91e_o-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"There are few weekly events are held for the old people so they can gather together and have some &quot;fun&quot;.\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/13908526896_ce8afdf91e_o-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/13908526896_ce8afdf91e_o-1-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/13908526896_ce8afdf91e_o-1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9849\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-9849 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/13908526896_ce8afdf91e_o-1-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"There are few weekly events are held for the old people so they can gather together and have some &quot;fun&quot;.\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/13908526896_ce8afdf91e_o-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/13908526896_ce8afdf91e_o-1-500x281.jpg 500w, https:\/\/cardiffjournalism.co.uk\/intercardiff\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/12\/2015\/11\/13908526896_ce8afdf91e_o-1.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/noscript><\/a> There are few weekly events are held for the old people so they can gather together and have some &#8220;fun&#8221;. By Georgle Pauwels.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Culture difference could make international students great volunteers with old people\u2019s charities that are currently facing big cuts to their budgets.<\/p>\n<p>With many old age day care centres facing closure in the city charities are on the look out for any volunteers who want to help out.<\/p>\n<p>Age Connect\u2019s Gloria Yates, who has seen the funding cut for one of her projects, says that students from overseas would be very welcome at their centres.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had students there from the university. They were all pharmaceutical students. They came alone to sit and talk to old people their medication and their experiences of the chemic or the doctors\u201d, says Gloria.<\/p>\n<p>She says that international students would be great if they\u2019d like to come and talk to the old people. She won\u2019t think culture difference is a big problem for students as long as their English are good enough. In spite of the language problem, if students from other countries talk to the old people, it could be a lot fun for them.<\/p>\n<p>Gloria Yates also mentions that they cancelled all the founding of her project two years ago. She used to have her own building at the other side of the union and her team were there for 25 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Culture difference could make international students great volunteers with old people\u2019s charities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":508,"featured_media":9849,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-global-city"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>International students could help old people in Cardiff - InterCardiff<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"International students could help old people in Cardiff - 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