- What is the modus operandi ( method of operating ) of the con artists?
- The con artists would impose themselves as volunteers from welfare organizations working on a project to spruce up the homes of the senior citizens.
- What are the Lion Befrienders planning to do to ensure the old folks do not get conned again?
- They have reminded not only the 3 victims, as well as all the old folks to ask for an identification pass bearing the visitor's name and Befrienders's logo, whether the visitors are the full-time staffs or experienced volunteers introducing new volunteers to them. This is to ensure that all the old folks recognized all the people who are visiting them subsequently.
- Do you like doing social work? Why/why not?
- I like doing social work. I like helping people, especially old folks. I like to see the smile on the old folk's faces when I visit them and help them clean and tidy up their homes since most of them do not have the strength and energy to do so. In my opinion, helping these old folks is a much better way to spent our leisure time than to just lazing around at home, doing nothing and/or play computer games. I think that it is a nice and caring thing to do by visiting these old folks and help them, it will not only make them feel happy, we are also making ourselves happy somehow.
- The con artists would impose themselves as volunteers from welfare organizations working on a project to spruce up the homes of the senior citizens.
- What are the Lion Befrienders planning to do to ensure the old folks do not get conned again?
- They have reminded not only the 3 victims, as well as all the old folks to ask for an identification pass bearing the visitor's name and Befrienders's logo, whether the visitors are the full-time staffs or experienced volunteers introducing new volunteers to them. This is to ensure that all the old folks recognized all the people who are visiting them subsequently.
- Do you like doing social work? Why/why not?
- I like doing social work. I like helping people, especially old folks. I like to see the smile on the old folk's faces when I visit them and help them clean and tidy up their homes since most of them do not have the strength and energy to do so. In my opinion, helping these old folks is a much better way to spent our leisure time than to just lazing around at home, doing nothing and/or play computer games. I think that it is a nice and caring thing to do by visiting these old folks and help them, it will not only make them feel happy, we are also making ourselves happy somehow.
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