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BE COMMUNITY

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About the project

BE COMMUNITY

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

The main objectives of this project are: to develop healthy habits and lifestyles in the participants; promote self-development, self-esteem, responsibility and autonomy, contributing to the acquisition of personal, social and professional skills; to sensitize youth to the importance of their participation in community development and preservation of natural resources; acquire and / or reinforce the language skills of the participants; European citizenship and sustainable growth to fight climate change. These objectives contribute to the priorities and goals of the Europe 2030 Strategy, as they will encourage young participants to learn, develop and update skills through participation in non-formal education activities.

💼 What the programme involves

The tasks will be in 2 different cities.In Viana do Castelo, the tasks include: Creating an organic, pedagogical and community vegetable garden; Repairing garden spaces;Placing a floor for the circulation of articulated chairs (wheelchairs); Painting the exterior walls and repairing the existing one;Repairing playful-pedagogical stimuli, such as trunks, tyres, etc.In Fafe, the tasks consist in the recovery of environmental heritage through collecting waste and removing invasive species;Creating an organic, educational and community vegetable garden making accessible and signposting the leisure areas to be created in the forest context and identifying and building an interpretative trail in the nature.

🏠 Accommodation on site

Breakfast will be provided at the accommodation (school/gym) by the monitors and a rotating team among the participants. For lunch, the food will be delivered by a catering restaurant at school/gym by 14pm. Dinner will be served at the accommodation at 8 pm (a warm meal to prepare for a comforting evening). Local organic and vegetarian food is provided (if any participant has a specific need for meet/fish products, we can provide too).Participants will sleep in classrooms of the school/gym, with mattresses and access to common showers and toilets divided by gender.

📍 About the location

From 24th to 30th July, participants will be in Fafe (rural, isolated area with an alternative school https://www.facebook.com/comunidadeekoa).From 30th July to 4th august, participants will be in Viana do Castelo (rural, close to the sea in https://www.facebook.com/ajd.deao)

⚠️ Requirements

In Fafe (first part of the workcamp) the food is lonely vegetarian because that is a school rule.

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📅 Available sessions

PT-IPJ 11.2

24/07/2023 → 04/08/2023

Closed
Volunteers registered 0 / 17
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ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–30 years old

Solidarity donation

0.00

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

4820 Fafe, Portugal

Portugal

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

Timezone

Western European Summer Time

Local time: 20:54 (12/11/2026)

🛡️ Before you leave

📞 Contact us

[email protected]

+32 2 888 67 13

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✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Portuguese