Generations A-Go-Go in Queensland
OPSO president Val French AM
Queensland High School Students and Older People Speak Out (OPSO) have planned ways they could teach each other and develop projects of mutual benefit.
The outcome has been Generations A Go-Go, a kit that not only shows what some of the young and old are doing together in some communities but also explains how they go about it, lists lots of activities that can be done together, and some of the successful social outcomes of pilot projects. Such projects include an intergenerational Mini Olympics between a retirement village and the local school, Meals on Wheels, with senior students sharing the delivery of meals with older .a plan to link younger people in a Junior Neighbourhood Watch, and intergenerational Parliamentary Debates in Parliament House (organized by OPSO) for the last two years.
The OPSO Generations A Go-Go kit will help to spread intergenerational projects across the state.
More details at http://www.opso.com.au/generations.htm
