English Cafe
DATE
- 10:30AM to 12PM, every Tuesday weekly
Location
- 200 Finch Ave West, Unit #221
Instructor Introduction
Heather Sheldrick, English Cafe Instructor
- Retired School Teacher
FUTFS provides weekly meetings and education classes for volunteers to train them to meet the requirements requested by both the Korean Canadian and Canadian Society. The English Café focuses on increasing English skills of participants through continuous English classes and conversations. The other one is a Singalong class which performs at places such as nursing homes and group agencies where it is needed after regular practices. We welcome all the participants who are interested in these meetings and activities. Especially, we recruit singalong group volunteers who can provide outreach services to weak and isolated individuals, groups, organizations, and nursing homes. By looking back to activities in 2019, We are reminded of the genuine and right spirit of volunteering which can be obtained by sharing with others pleasantly. Although we cannot share lots of things, we experience how the small happiness and pleasantness are so important in making life feel meaningful and worthwhile.
There are lots of things in the qualifications of volunteers, but we learn 4 necessary qualifications through the classes:
- Caring: The ability to care and sympathize with others.
- Motivation: Desire to share the worry, pain, and difficulty of people who want to be helped.
- Emotional Stability: Having endurable emotional stability when we share the worry, pain, difficulty of other people who are looking for help.
- Communication Ability/Skills: Ability to listen closely and respond to them with sensitivity and receptive capacity.
