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Working with Older Volunteers in Manual Intergenerational Projects The results of the exchange programmes proved that the chosen method was appropriate. The host group was involved in the early plans (except in France, where the geographical spreading of the participants prevented this) and was increasingly interested in active participation while planning the agenda. In cooperation with the associated schools and institutions they decided on the topics as well as on details such as material and tools. In addition, they developed ideas for the support programme and decided on its form, organized the exchanges with the help of their personal connections, gave advice concerning the logistics and much more. At the beginning of the exchange weeks the participants were divided into different intergenerational groups with creative and practical tasks. Also in this stage it was important to mind the participants’ main interest. Each group decided on one member who supervised the project’s execution, organised the single steps and checked on a balanced division of work. During the project hosts and guests could easily gather and usually agreed on the proceedings without any translation tool by demonstrating working techniques, presenting visual aids and by assisting each other in the working process. If this method wasn’t satisfying, usually the young people or participants with a command of the language in need could help or authorized interpreters solved the problem. All participants were increasingly interested in informing the others about the particular activities in their home country and in sharing their knowledge about it. Without exception all senior participants identified immediately with their tasks and thus quickly felt responsible for their particular project, which became obvious in their concern for punctual completion by the end of the week or in their creativity, when required tools were missing or problems had to be solved. This kind of initiative was a great help to the organisers, since parts of the execution could be given to volunteers. Real problems rarely occurred. One group, for example, had to cook for more than 80 people and therefore had to prepare all parts of the meal on time. When the older participants didn’t always have the patience to integrate the young people into each step of production, the problem could be solved within one day and a few conversations. This group needed more communicative support than others; one interpreter attended nearly all their meetings and supported them by fixing important words in three languages above the workplaces. Other participants were doing silk painting and had communicative problems in the beginning, because none of them spoke a foreign language and all of them (older participants) were focussed on speaking. At first this courted resentment (“interpreters are never available”, “the course is badly organised in general”), and yet they completed their salutation banner and other silk paintings as planned and already on the third day the family backgrounds of the group members had been clarified with the help of paper, pencil and drawings. Thus during the entire exchange real contact between the participants came up especially in small groups; once the beginning was made this way, making Set of Methods 93
TRAMP – Transnational Mobility of Older People in Europe 94 Part II contact during the programme was no problem. In the course of the week it became obvious that the interest in other participants and their homeland activities increased considerably, and conversations about volunteerism, project ideas, and the general situation of pensioners came up. One of the German pensioners summarized for his group that initially they had been very sceptical about a cross-border and language cooperation, yet they got increasingly enthusiastic about the guests and had a good understanding with them.
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