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► SCAN - IT on the Move

What: SCAN are looking to recruit a group of students, who, armed with laptops, once a week go into local elderly care homes and help to teach IT and basic computing skills to the residents. It may be helping someone to set up an email account, showing them how to browse the web or watching videos on You Tube, it just depends on what the person you are helping wants to do. Volunteers can either buddy up with the resident providing one to one support or alternatively may want to work together as a group and have more structured lessons.

This is a pilot project which will run over the academic year 2010/11 so volunteers need to be flexible in how they work, in future we hope to expand this project to include visits to community centres and to also engage with other community groups and young people from diverse communities.

Volunteers don’t need to be computer wizards as long as you have basic skills, are enthusiastic and can communicate effectively this could be the project for you.

Skills Acquisition: Working with the elderly, developing communication skills, teaching skills, experience of community groups and voluntary organisations, problem solving, organisational skills

Expenses: SCAN will provide the laptops (only for use on this project!) and will reimburse all travel expenses for this project.