The Dutch Red Cross will send buses with volunteers carrying roses to old age homes on Valentine's Day to urge lonely pensioners to ask others out on a date, a spokesperson said on Wednesday.
"Valentine's Day is the day of love and we want to contribute," Red Cross spokesperson Sebastien Kraaijeveld told reporters ahead of Thursday's events.
A team of young volunteers will make surprise visits to nursing homes and try to get elderly residents to talk about love and what Valentine's Day means to them.
The volunteers will bring two roses, one for the pensioner they speak to and the other for them to give to somebody they would like to go on a date with, Kraaijeveld said.
The romantic initiative is part of a Red Cross programme to bring youngsters in contact with the elderly.
According to the Red Cross, recent studies show that out of a population of 16 million, some one million Dutch feel lonely and the majority of those people are over 65 years old.
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