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Lit Seniors Initiative

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The Lit Seniors Initiative promotes social inclusion, mental health, healthy ageing and volunteerism in seniors from 55 plus. Our vision is to raise awareness on issues confronting our elders especially now during the pandemic.

Our focus is on elderly ethnic men and women. In 2021, the Foundation received funding from New Horizons for Seniors program to provide painting sessions, engage seniors about their experiences during the pandemic and and to create a magazine for seniors. We hope you find the work we do here informative.

A Senior With Convictions – Mr Yash Sharma Chats to the Senior Lit Initiative Show Episode 2

  The Seniors Lit Initiative is a flagship program of LCCMedia Foundation. With the help of a much needed grant, the Foundation is charged with running painting sessions for seniors and curating content about how seniors coped in the pandemic for a magazine exclusively for seniors. In this media chat, we spoke to Yash Sharma …

Weekly Free Painting Sessions for Seniors Week 3

  “Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.”   The truth be told, we all have our talents. We all have the ability to do whatever we put our minds too. Enabled by New Seniors Horizon, LCCMedia Foundation is…

Seniors Lit Initiative with Yvonne and Vindel Chang ~ Episode 1

LCCMedia Foundation got a grant with New Horizon Seniors to deliver painting sessions to seniors. The terms of the grant include hosting podcasts sessions with seniors asking them about their experiences in the pandemic. The last component of the grant is to create a magazine from the conversations had with our seniors. We are working…

Fruits or Fitness ~ A Write Up For Seniors

Many people are realizing that exercise is not as important as our food intake. We generally understand that our body weight begins to come down when we consume less food and then exercise for rapid results. The importance of consuming a balanced diet which includes fruits and vegetables cannot be over emphasized. Here are some…

The Covid 19 Situation and Seniors

Lower your chance of getting sick If you’re at high risk for serious illness from COVID-19, it’s important to take actions to lower your chance of getting sick. Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds, especially after using the washroom and when preparing food. Use alcohol-based hand sanitizer containing at least 60%…

Helplines For Seniors

It is important to us that our seniors know where to go when things are not working. If you are reading this and you are a senior, it is well worth it to have some of these numbers on your speed dial. The numbers are 24 hours and toll free helplines. You do not have…