To provide easy access to quality social and community services with professionalism and integrity to Afghans in their successful integration and establishment in Canadian society.

Seniors

AAO Seniors Program aims to assist Afghan Seniors and find innovative ways for seniors to continue to play an important role in the Afghan Community. AAO Seniors Program runs by seniors for seniors. The program provides peer support, networking, social engagement, information, counselling, referrals, workshops and group sessions on elder abuse, health, financial, and other topics of interests to seniors.

This program have been encouraging and permitting older adults to transfer vital skills amongst their own peer groups and foster increased community engagement and positive adaptation to transitions in their lives.

PURPOSE

  • To provide seniors and their families with forums to express their opinions about the issues affecting their lives
  • To create awareness about the risk occurrence of social isolation experienced by some Afghan seniors
  • To identify and outreach Afghan seniors who are isolated or experiencing isolation and link them with others within the community, and with other different communities to learn from their experiences
  • To inform the seniors about available service provider agencies which are available in proximate distance around the senior’s residents?