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| Starting today, Thursday, they will be able to contact the telephone number 868 484510 with the volunteers of the "Minutos en Compañía" program who will be connected to a switchboard from which calls are derived | The Murcia City Council, through the Department for the Elderly, Disability and Development Cooperation, and the Adopta Un Abuelo association, launched the free phone number 868 484510 from Thursday so that the elderly who are confined to their homes feel less alone.

and isolated.Under the name "Minutos en Compañía", a group of volunteers from the Adopta Un Abuelo association will offer telephone support aimed primarily at the more than 14,000 older people living alone in the municipality of Murcia.In this way, by calling the toll-free number 868 484510, those who need to feel accompanied will be able to share a conversation with one of the volunteers of the more than 2,000 who are part of the Adopt a Grandfather association.The calls made by the elderly arrive at a switchboard that allows the calls to be forwarded to the group of volunteers, facilitating solidarity work from their homes.

After a first contact, which serves to collect the data of the participants, a volunteer is assigned who will be the one who will accompany them throughout the journey.VolunteersPeople who want to participate as volunteers can register through the web www.adoptaunabuelo.org/reto and expand information on the social networks of Adopta Un Abuelo: Twitter: @adoptaunabuelo, Instagram: @ adopta1abuelo and Facebook: Adoptaunabuelo1.Once they register on the web, they must take a test that allows the volunteer team to evaluate and get to know the volunteer better.

They will also receive prior training so that the quality of the service is optimal.Adopt a Grandfather will periodically provide the Murcia City Council with information on the elderly people served and the actions carried out during the duration of the agreement, which will end when the confinement circumstances derived from the state of alarm conclude, and cannot go beyond 31 December 2020.For its part, the Murcian consistory promotes and disseminates the program on the web and institutional social networks.Connecting generations since 2014The Adopta Un Abuelo association connects generations through telephone and recurrent accompaniment since 2014.

Its objective is for the elderly to feel loved, accompanied and listened to, while the volunteers learn values ??and experiences during the visits.The program, in addition to offering accompaniment to older people, aims to pay tribute to their figure.

To date, it has been implemented in 54 Spanish municipalities, having so far provided more than 31,000 company hours.For the Councilor for the Elderly, Paqui Pérez, it is an essential solidarity initiative that "we have to thank the association and its volunteers.

Thanks to them, a time of conversation at such hard times becomes a treasure for many of our elders They are comforted that someone on the other end of the phone listens to them and they gain confidence and security.

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Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia