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Ardan Michael Blum
Consultant and Volunteer
Consultant and Volunteer
- A Memory
In 2001, driven by a commitment to combat loneliness among the elderly, the NGO Vivre Avec le 3ème Âge ('Living Within The Third Age') was created in Geneva, Switzerland. Over the subsequent decade, this Charity undertook a range of impactful initiatives. One of these involved securing and distributing substantial hardware and software donations from leading technology partners – Logitech, IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and Microsoft – to equip senior centers and nursing homes throughout French-speaking Switzerland. This would prove to be one of the Charity's most significant achievements.
Another project which met with success was the creation of a website enabling senior citizens to share their life stories. See the French language site Histoires de Genève.
Cultural engagement was a key focus, exemplified by a free concert organized with the Swiss National Symphony Orchestra (Orchestre de la Suisse Romande) at Geneva’s Victoria Hall.
This was followed the next year by a special winter holiday season dinner hosted at Geneva's Brasserie Lipp, providing a free festive gathering for eighty senior citizens.
These represent only a selection of the diverse activities undertaken by Vivre Avec le 3ème Âge, further details of which can be found in these press articles.
