As we are stepping into the Digital Age, we can make things happen just by using our smart phones and mobile devices. However, for our senior citizens who have difficulties in handling the “Apps and systems”, the common use of digital systems becomes a digital divide.

Since 2014 the WPEO Voluntary Service Development Centre has organized volunteer activities for senior citizens to bridge the digital divide. Over seven years, 85 activities of demonstrating and teaching seniors to use smart phones have been arranged, with about 120 UIC students and teachers involved, and altogether 176 local senior citizens benefiting from the activities.

Participating seniors had the opportunity to learn and practice how to use smart phones to communicate by WeChat, make digital payments, generate health codes and travel codes, and make hospital reservation, which helped them adjust to the Digital Age. At the same time, UIC students learnt organization and communication skills, reflected on their relationship with their own families, and experienced the accomplishment of self-value fulfilment.