Help others get to their medical appointments
Your Community Health Shuttle
Can you help?
We need more volunteers from the South Waikato, especially helpful to have some more in Tokoroa.
You know what we do - take people to their health board appointments when they have no other way to get there. Our charter says we help those with community service cards - but wherever there's a need we try to help. We help with appointments in Hamilton, Cambridge, Matamata, Rotorua, Taupo, Te Kuiti, Thames, Monday to Saturday.
What do we do?
Everyone's a volunteer. No-one in our organisation is paid. We have a roster - we select a day we can keep aside for shuttle duty - at least one day each two weeks. Some of us drive - one of the cars or one of the vans - you can say if you're not confident with the van - and some of us are assistants for when we have a number of passengers.
We drive people to their appointments, help them find their way (or push the wheelchair..) and see they are comfortable. Sometimes we stay with particularly nervous clients.
We don't know how long we'll be away from home - maybe four hours, maybe up to eight, because the appointments may be at different times and be of different lengths. Our job is to get everyone back home - but sometimes this means another driver does a pickup.
Check out swcht dot org to download details and an application
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The Australian Prime Minister has expressed plans to ban social media use for children.
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