Amplifying Voices is a video project that explores the lives and realities of six seniors who receive meals-on-wheels from Santropol Roulant. Santropol Roulant: This mini video showcases how Jan, Anne, Alda, Augustine and Rosanne use Santropol Roulant’s meals-on-wheels service. Who participated? Santropol Roulant’s meals-on-wheels clients and volunteers collaborated to create these videos. While the clients provided the content by sharing their …
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Amplifying Voices Video #4: Friendship and Community
Amplifying Voices is a video project that explores the lives and realities of six seniors who receive meals-on-wheels from Santropol Roulant. Friendship and Community: Kindred spirits, neighbours, and community members are important in all of our lives. Find out how these six seniors connect with their communities and how they feel about it. Friendship and Community/Amitié et Communauté – Amplifying Voices …
Amplifying Voices Video #3: Mobility Health and Autonomy
Amplifying Voices is a video project that explores the lives and realities of six seniors who receive meals-on-wheels from Santropol Roulant. Mobility, Health and Autonomy: All of Santropol Roulant’s meals-on-wheels clients experience a loss of autonomy and often restricted mobility or other health issues. These different problems affect how they experience and interact with their world. Kateri Décary, Meals-on-Wheels Director at …
Amplifying Voices Video #2: Day-to-Day and Pastimes
Amplifying Voices is a video project that explores the lives and realities of six seniors who receive meals-on-wheels from Santropol Roulant. Day-to-day and Pastimes: This video focuses mostly at time spent alone. What does a typical day look like, what brings pleasure and pride, and what is more difficult? Who participated? Santropol Roulant’s meals-on-wheels clients and volunteers collaborated to create these …
Amplifying Voices Video #1: Meet the Stars
Amplifying Voices is a video project that explores the lives and realities of six seniors who receive meals-on-wheels from Santropol Roulant. Meet the characters: Our six stars share a bit about who they are, where they come from and what they’re about. Kateri Décary, Meals-on-Wheels Director at Santropol Roulant, tells us a bit about the meals-on-wheels clients. Who participated? Santropol Roulant’s meals-on-wheels …
Corporate Team Building with W Hotel!
Throughout this past year, we had the pleasure of hosting employees from W Hotel at Santropol Roulant. They were one of our corporate groups who helped prepare and deliver meals for our Meals-on-Wheels Program once a month. Some came to lend a hand chopping vegetables, baking cakes and preparing tasty food for 100 meals-on-wheels clients in the kitchen, and others …
Trivia Night Round 3: Tonight!
After an intense 2nd round this summer, our popular Trivia Night returns for an autumn edition! Is your trivial knowledge not proving to be the ideal conversation-starter you had hoped it to be? Come share your frivolous fun facts and put them to good use! What: The Roulant is hosting its 3rd Trivia Night! When: Oct 24th from 7:30 to …
Apple Picking Recap
On October 17th, a group of 60 Santropol Roulant community members (clients, volunteers, staff, donors and board members!) ages 8 months to 90+ years, went apple picking in Mont St-Grégoire. We dined on buckwheat crepes, toured the orchard by tractor, marvelled at the colourful leaves and picked a variety of apples. To top things off, Pierre-Vincent and Mira-Clair treated us …
Cheesemaking is back!
The popular cheesemaking workshops with David Rotsztain are back! In the introductory classes, David will lead us through making fromage frais, paneer, fresh curds, and blue cheese. The theory and history of cheese, the politics of raw milk and dairy, other dairy ferments, and rennet-free cheesemaking will also be explored. You’ll take home samples of cheese, cultures, and whey plus …
Get to know The Roulant’s Young Gardeners
Adults, aren’t the only ones at play in The Roulant’s gardens. This season, our urban gardens were the playground and classroom for 12 summer camps and elementary schools. Our tours put youth in contact with their natural environment, and reconnected them to the source of their food. In total, 182 young people learned how to reduce their environmental impact and create positive …
Intergenerational Apple-Picking Event
Santropol Roulant is proud to announce that we’ve added a fourth intergenerational event to our 2013 calendar! Our intergenerational events such as the holiday brunch, summer brunch, and sugar shack outing serve as unique opportunities to bring people together across generations and cultures. Next Thursday October 17th, meals-on-wheels clients, staff and volunteers will venture to a local apple orchard just 45 …
Rooftop Screening: Musically Medicated
Santropol Roulant is proud to be screening the documentary Musically Medicated on Thursday, Oct 3rd. The film follows the story of Robbie Tucker (musician, baker, and Roulant volunteer) as he struggles with a diagnosis of young onset Parkinsons and its effects on all aspects of his life. For more info and to see a trailer for the film, click here. …