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Generations get board together Keith Platt keith@mpnews.com.au
Project is a “social enterprise ‌ that believes that when generations, families, businesses and individuals from different walks of life share, connect and learn from one another we have a richer, more effective communityâ€?. When he started his project two years ago it was aimed at “addressing one of the most significant challenges impacting the largest and fastest growing demographic in the population – addressing the digital exclusion of seniorsâ€?. It didn’t take long for him to realise that having the two generations work alongside one another also brought them closer together, with obvious mutually beneficial outcomes. The idea of having young and old working together was extended earlier this month to making the bellyboards with Mt Eliza-based wooden surfboard makers Tree to Sea. Gary Miller and Rob Ivers usually show groups of eight how to make surfboards from the plantation grown timber, paulownia. This time the half day workshop involved six students and six members of Mornington Men’s Shed. They planed, sawed and glued the boards which will be varnished and polished by the men’s shed members. Profits from their sale will then go towards running the shed.
THE making of six wooden paipos, or wooden Hawaiian bodyboards, is a centrepiece of a project that is sees generations swapping skills. In return for being shown how to handle timber working tools by members of Mornington Men’s Shed students from Mt Eliza Secondary College are giving lessons on handling such digital touch screen devices as smart phones and hand held computers. But the outcomes for both old and young go much deeper than the creation of a surfboard or ability to operate a smart phone or computer. A surprising connection between the generations comes in the form of statistics: about 15 per cent of seniors on the Mornington Peninsula suffer depression and about 20 per cent of year 7 and year 8 students suffer depression. “They’re horrible statistics and I don’t think we fully understand what they mean to our community,� Better Together Project leader Merv Stewart said. “But both ends [young and old] have that problem.� Mr Stewart said the Better Together
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