Project Caressing
Loneliness is a degenerative disease - it strikes at any age.

Project Caressing is a program for the young and the elderly to experience a gentle and loving communication.

It is at the two extreme ages of life that loneliness is more acutely felt - for in the years between, action and involvement absorb our time and energy.

The main communication an infant has is through the skin.  For the nine months of gestation, he feels no boundaries between his body and that of his mother.  Anthropologists have found that, in societies where infants are touched,  held and carried the incident of violence is much less than in societies where infant care is restricted to merely feeding and changing.

What about the other age of loneliness, when a person finds himself obliged to retire professionally?  Many people find themselves distant from their families, often having to give up their homes to live in groups and loneliness.  By bringing together these elders and infants, both can find the contact they need to dissolve their loneliness.