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Let’s help each other, in sickness and in health |
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Tuesday, 09 October 2007 |
A stay in hospital can be a
lonely experience,
particularly if you speak little
French and have no family
here. The return home
afterwards can also be fraught
if you are alone and cannot
carry out everyday tasks or do
shopping. For this reason,
Lynn Marlow has set up a new
association to support
Anglophones in times of
illness and distress.
The British Volunteer
Network will cover
départements 22, 29, 35 and
56. It will have a database of all the hospitals and clinics here
and will chart the volunteers in each area. Each area will have
co-ordinators who will take the calls for support and through
the database will contact the appropriate volunteer.
There is a role for everyone. Not all volunteers need be
hospital visitors or assist with sick people. The network also
needs good organisers and administrators. It aims to extend
its support to expectant and new mothers, so that those who
have already had a baby here will be able to help others,
before and after the birth, either by email, phone calls or
personal visits.
The website and database are being designed and run by
David Colden, an IT architect living in London. Keith Spain,
a graphic artist of some 50 years, has designed an excellent
logo. There are some 50 other volunteers spread across the
region, pooling their experience and expertise, but of course
more are needed. “We would be delighted to hear from
anyone who would like to support this initiative”, says Lynn.
Please contact Lynn Marlow, President, British Voluntary
Network,
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, tel. 02 96 26 30 97
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