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University of Madras will host volunteering workshop
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The three-day programme starts today
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The three-day programme starts today
On Tuesday, the University of Madras will launch a three-day training programme on offering psychological first aid (PFA).
The programme is open to students of affiliated colleges. The virtual event will be inaugurated by City Corporation Commissioner Gagandeep Singh Bedi.
“The course is aimed at frontline or essential workers and volunteers dealing with the public during the COVID-19 pandemic. You do not have to be a specialist to deliver PFA,” explained S. Thenmozhi, programme convener and head of the Department of Counselling Psychology. The programme will benefit healthcare and social-care staff, first responders, frontline public-sector staff, essential workers, volunteers, supervisors and managers.
Irish people who wish to volunteer in Europe and their own country can now apply for a programme that will help and support them. MEPs in the European Parliamen.
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âI want to say thank you to the Mindful Care staff for your incredible kindness to our loved ones. Davidâs quality of life these last 6 years was so much better because of how Mindful Care helped him and made him feel valued. We love you and thank you.â (Angie Dean, caregiver for her father-in-law, who died Dec. 12, 2020.)
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As India braves the second wave of COVID-19, its citizens are emerging as real heroes by rising to the challenge and offering help in any way they can. According to the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, there are 33,53,675 Covid patients in the country as of May 18, 2021.
For many quarantined at home with symptoms of fatigue, headache, and fever among others, the challenge in the recovery path is access to healthy food.
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