The residents of Llar d’Ancians read the greetings this morning with great joy and emotion.
With gratitude, emotion and joy. This is how the residents of Llar d’Ancians in Palma received the Christmas cards made by 220 people from CaixaBank Volunteers in the Balearic Islands as part of the ‘Postcards against Loneliness’ programme. An initiative that has been carried out since 2020 to accompany, albeit from a distance, elderly people who live in residential centres managed by the Institut Mallorquí d’Afers Socials (IMAS) or who make use of one of the island institution’s day centres.
In total, the volunteers have made 900 postcards, addressed to more than 600 people in the public residences of Mallorca and the day centre of Llucmajor. All of them have an exclusive and unique design and a personalised message handwritten by the volunteers themselves. In addition to Llar d’Ancians, postcards have also been distributed today at the La Bonanova, Oms-San Miquel and Bartomeu Quetglas residences in Felanitx, and at the Can Clar day centre run by IMAS in Llucmajor.
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More than 600 elderly people from IMAS centres receive personalised Christmas cards from CaixaBank Volunteers
The ‘Postcards against loneliness’ programme was launched at the height of the pandemic and now, even though the scenario is completely different, this initiative continues, in which, in addition to the CaixaBank volunteers, l’Associació de Dones Montuïreres, Fundación Asnimo, the Escort Group of Sant Josep Obrer and the ArtDansa and De Pinta en Ample schools have participated.
‘It is a gift that they receive with the emotion of feeling that there are strangers who dedicate words of gratitude, affection and encouragement to them, which are more than medicine,’ said the island’s director of Social and Health Care, Rosa Llobera.
‘Thanks to these actions, hundreds of elderly people feel valued and loved’, said the delegate of CaixaBank Volunteering in the Balearic Islands, Joana Maria Gelabert, who also stressed that “today’s event is an example of how the association carries out initiatives to improve the lives of people in vulnerable situations”.
CaixaBank Volunteering is one of the largest volunteer initiatives in the country and its purpose is to bring the practice of solidarity actions to all citizens. With a track record of 19 years, the association is made up of employees and former employees of the CaixaBank Group and ‘la Caixa’ Foundation, as well as friends, family, customers and other people who want to participate in a completely altruistic way in solidarity activities.
Last year, thanks to the joint work with more than 2,200 social organisations and the involvement of more than 17,200 volunteers, the CaixaBank Volunteering programme accompanied more than 372,000 vulnerable people throughout Spain, through activities related to education, digitalisation, accompanying vulnerable people and the environment, among others.