Home of social services Pohorelská Maša
This summer we visited the Pohorelská Maša Social Services Home together with our volunteers.
Helping the elderly
The situation in homes for the elderly is dramatic. Where there has been an outbreak of coronavirus, many clients and staff have become infected. Despite strict measures, it is very difficult to stop the spread of the English mutation in particular. Many seniors cannot even understand the risk of infection and the strict measures, so they quickly become infected. What can we do for our seniors? ...
ADRA HELP team joined the DSS
The situation of the DSS in which Covid-19 occurred is dramatic. Many sick clients and staff. The Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs has asked us for urgent help. From among willing volunteers we operatively formed an ADRA HELP team over the weekend and on Monday morning they were already on duty in the DSS ARCUS in Košice. Our team currently has three members: an experienced social worker, a spiritual worker and a nurse. Two [...]
We are looking for collaborators for HELP teams for DSS
The situation of the DSS in which Covid-19 occurred is dramatic. Many sick clients and staff. For several weeks now, volunteers from our HELP teams have been helping in the most affected homes. ADRA is looking for more volunteers to join the HELP team. Who can get involved? - Healthcare professionals, medics, caregivers, nursing assistants, people with experience of caring for the elderly - Covid-19 survivors, vaccination [...]
ADRA brought help from Austria for the „Good Shepherd“ home“
How can homeless people stay at home during a coronary crisis? Father Vladimír Maslák has dedicated his life to helping the homeless. In cooperation with volunteers, he renovated the abandoned buildings of the old monastery in Kláštor pod Znievom. Today, it provides shelter and a new home to more than 500 people who have decided to leave their past behind the gates of the facility and live in the present. [...]
Second wave of COVID-19, ADRA still in action...
ADRA is helping to provide logistics for the expansion of the capacity of collection points in Bratislava hospitals. Our collaborators, whom we already call „Carpenters without Borders“, together with volunteers also used Sundays - the time when the collection centres are closed - to build additional shelters and a waiting room so that another site at the hospital in Kramary could be put into operation on Monday morning. [...]
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