Breaking social isolation, one coffee at a time

Gather around a cup of coffee to simply chat. Here is the invitation launched by the intergenerational action “On jase-tu? whose mission is to break the social isolation of seniors.

Posted yesterday at 6:00 p.m.

Veronique Larocque

Veronique Larocque
The Press

“The pandemic has exacerbated this scourge. Now is the time to get together and have a coffee together, in order to build bridges between generations,” said Marie-Claude Barrette, co-spokesperson for the event with France Castel, in a press release. Young and old are expected at the Complexe Desjardins, in Montreal, and at the Fleur de Lys shopping center, in Quebec City, from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., Saturday, June 4, for this meeting which has already mobilized more than 30 000 participants in the last years. About a hundred activities are planned throughout the province.


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