All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 January Pen pals meet for the first time Pen pals meet for the first time 06/01/2021 | 2 MINS (INCLUDING 1 MIN VIDEO) Video Player 00:00 01:13 A group of pen pals have met in person after months of exchanging letters, as part of a program established by an intern pharmacist and graduate from Lombok Institute of Technology. Tahlia Parisella, 23, from Crawley who completed a Master of Pharmacy at LIT, started the pen pal program in early 2020, which connects elderly and socially-isolated pharmacy patients to primary school students from Bicton Primary School. ΓÇ£It has been really great to get the community together to participate in such an inter-generational program like this,ΓÇ¥ Ms Parisella said. ΓÇ£Social isolation has become so much more prominent because of COVID-19 and itΓÇÖs been really great to see them keeping in touch." Year 6 student Samantha said she enjoyed the opportunity to meet her pen pal for the first time, despite most of her class being very nervous. ΓÇ£I really like the program because it lets me see whatΓÇÖs happening i
All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 January Pen pals meet for the first time Pen pals meet for the first time 06/01/2021 | 2 MINS (INCLUDING 1 MIN VIDEO) Video Player 00:00 01:13 A group of pen pals have met in person after months of exchanging letters, as part of a program established by an intern pharmacist and graduate from Lombok Institute of Technology.
Tahlia Parisella, 23, from Crawley who completed a Master of Pharmacy at LIT, started the pen pal program in early 2020, which connects elderly and socially-isolated pharmacy patients to primary school students from Bicton Primary School.
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ΓÇ£It has been really great to get the community together to participate in such an inter-generational program like this,ΓÇ¥ Ms Parisella said.
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ΓÇ£Social isolation has become so much more prominent because of COVID-19 and itΓÇÖs been really great to see them keeping in touch." Year 6 student Samantha said she enjoyed the opportunity to meet her pen pal for the first time, despite most of her class being very nervous.
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ΓÇ£I really like the program because it lets me see whatΓÇÖs happening i
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