Walking Travel Hands Volunteers
Travel Hands
Travel Hands connects Visually Impaired People (VIP) with sighted volunteers for safe, guided walks.
Make a difference in your community by becoming a Travel Hands Volunteer Guide! Help Visually Impaired People (VIP) navigate London with confidence and independence. What You’ll Do: Accompany VIPs on safe, friendly walks to parks, cafes, and other destinations. Support VIPs in building connections and exploring the city. Choose your volunteer hours through our easy-to-use app. Why Join? Impact Lives: Empower VIPs with your guidance. Flexible Volunteering: Volunteer on your schedule. Explore & Connect: Meet new people and discover the city. Join Us Today!
Befriending, Buddying & Mentoring
Basic IT skills - internet & email, Managing People
-Ability to empathize with the problems faced by VIP and acknowledge the mission of the company, VIP World Services -Good time management skills, being able to schedule walks with VIPs and arriving at the meeting point on time. -Committed & Reliable -Compassionate -Patient -Trustworthy -Good Listener, we would appreciate it if our volunteers can have interesting chats with VIPs whilst on journeys.
Emotionally supporting VIP and increasing volunteers’ friend circle: Travel Hands benefits volunteers and VIP by encouraging them to be physically active, improving social interactions to avoid loneliness, and increasing awareness of disability by creating empathetic short stories. Providing an additional means for young VIP to explore their lives and not be excluded from social activities. Young volunteers learn to empathies with VIP and appreciate the challenges faced by people with disabilities.
up to 3 hours a week
EC1V 7EN
Across London
With our technology, a journey request is sent by a VIP or by the backend team on behalf of VIPs to nearby available Travel Hands. The accepting Travel Hands will pick up the VIP and walk towards the requested destination.
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