Non-governmental Charities in Jiangsu Carry out Community Activities to Help the Elderly

为了庆祝端午节，江苏一义工服务社为社区老人举办夏季中医养生知识的讲座。

6月2日，江苏镇江芦苇之家义工服务社联合镇江高专护理学院南丁格尔志愿者在芦苇之家活动中心举办了一场活动：中医助力社区老人度夏。

活动邀请了镇江高专护理学院南丁格尔志愿者，为爱德基金会、阿里巴巴公益基金会发起的淘金币爸妈食堂服务的老人代表和助老志愿者提供了夏季中医养生知识的讲座。介绍了如何根据自身体质和季节特点选择合适的保健方式，以达到预防疾病、调节气血、增强免疫力的目的。同时，大学生志愿者还教授了一套简单易学的保健操，助老志愿者也将把学会的知识应用到社区助老服务中去。

In order to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival, a volunteer service club in Jiangsu held a lecture on summer TCM healthcare knowledge for the elderly in the community.

On June 2nd, Jiangsu Zhenjiang Reed House Volunteer Service Club and Nightingale volunteers from Zhenjiang College of Nursing held an activity at the Reed House Activity Center: Traditional Chinese Medicine Helps the Elderly in the Community to Spend the Summer.

The event invited Nightingale volunteers from Zhenjiang College of Nursing to provide lectures on summer TCM health care knowledge. It was for elderly representatives and elderly volunteers who served in the parent canteen, initiated by the Amity Foundation and Alibaba Foundation. It introduced how to choose the appropriate way of health care according to the characteristics of one's body and season so as to achieve the purpose of preventing diseases, regulating qi and blood, and enhancing immunity. At the same time, university student volunteers also taught a set of easy-to-learn health exercises, and they would also apply the knowledge they had learned to community elderly services.

- Translated by Monica Zhang