A joke a day helps keep isolation blues away, that’s the idea behind a new positive message hotline created for seniors by a group of Calgary high schoolers.
The Joy4all hotline offers pre-recorded messages of kindness, jokes, stories and positive poems to those in isolation amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
The project is run by students from the recreational leadership program with Ever Active Schools, as part of a volunteer opportunity. “This project was born out of awesome student ideas and creativity,” Jamie Anderson, a teacher with the program, said in an interview with 770 CHQR. “It came from responding to the needs of the community, especially with the unfortunate news in Calgary where we’ve heard of a lot of difficulties with senior