Soraya Fallah project with UCLA Mattel Children's Hospital

 Community Project:

Soraya Fallah

I have done many projects in the community; one of them was

"Connecting two generations of adult immigrants and children admitted to Mattel Children's Hospital, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

In the Spring of 2014, I launched a humanitarian initiative in one of the centers I was working, Olympus Adult Day Care Center in West Los Angeles, as part of my department's initiative, the Social and Psychological Department. I  led the project by contacting Mattel Hospital, University of California, Los Angeles, one of the largest research centers in the United States.

Participants and clients of the Olympus Adult Center are adults of different nationalities and religious minorities, such as Iranians, Russians, Armenians, Kurds, Azeris, adults from Latin America, and American citizens who have participated in the project.

I proposed to cooperate in collecting toys and donations as much as they wanted and write postcards for hospitalized children, which was approved by most of the center's adults. Hospital officials also welcomed the move, acknowledging that even though they always receive a lot of help, this is the first time it has been organized and organized by a community-based adult facility.

On Friday, April 17, after two months of working on the project, there were more than 300 toys, several donation checks, and several postcards signed with beautiful messages. Ms. Fallah believes that the relationship between these two generations, who are grandparents and grandchildren, has many benefits for both generations. Adults who are forgotten immigrants also experience a sense of re-emergence in society and individual values ​​with such help.

Staff from the social work department, the social worker, and the activity department cooperated greatly in promoting and implementing this project. In addition, the director and owner of this center were also among those who collaborated financially and in carrying out this project.

It was hard work, but it paid off as the media also covered it. For more information, please check







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