Helping a human being opens your eyes and your heart
Text: Kerti Kulper
Translation: Liina Martinson
When talking about helping people with special needs or the elderly, many accidentally believe that helping means 24-hour care that is accompanied by several boring tasks. Those who have offered a helping hand, know very well that helping is useful to both parties and it definitely cannot be called taking care of someone, let alone a boring job.
The Y-generation is paving the way towards a more open society
Text: Kerti Kulper
Translation: Liina Martinson
The Y-generation is often accused of being lazy and exhibiting a lack of independence. Many of these young people still live with their parents, which reinforces the impression that the Y-generation youth do not have the drive, or desire to make the effort to earn money. However, there is one reason why this generation is way ahead of the others.
A birthday should be a time for giving, not for receiving
Text: Kerti Kulpar
Translation: Liina Martinson
During the 29 years of his life, Tarvo Tobbi has needed help from his family and relatives as well as from close acquaintances. The most memorable factor among this help has been the sincerity of the helpers, which has been expressed by a pure wish to lend a helping hand. Whether a grandmother who took time off work for months to help Tarvo learn to walk after meningitis for the second time in his life, or a neighbour who despite having his own family, drove Tarvo and his grandmother home on a Christmas Eve after Tarvo had spent four months in the hospital. All this has left a deep impression on him about what sincere help, which has no implication nor wish to get something in return, means.
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When Tarvo turned 30, he decided to dedicate the 7th of April to a person who needed a helping hand in their everyday activities and in managing their life. |
Social welfare system – next Estonian Skype
1:43:00 PM
Will volunteers save our welfare system?
Keiu Roosimägi
Helpific - CEO/Chairwoman of the Board
Estonian Association of Sharing Economy, Board Member
According
to Statistics Estonia, in the beginning of this year there lived ca
146 343 disabled persons in Estonia, for example 39 020 of them live
in Harju County, 8 633 in Pärnu County and 22 088 in Tartu County.
According to the social research about the managing of disabled people of
Tallinn (Saar Poll OÜ, 2016), people need additional help due to their
disability for example in activities such as shopping - 63% of the cases, and navigating outdoors -
46% of the cases.