📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
Founded in 2009, Teatro Metaphora is a non-profit association whose purpose is to organize cultural and educational activities for the benefit of the community’s development. Our objectives are to develop the social and personal competencies of children, youth, and adults through non-formal education principles.
Our main actions can be grouped into three distinctive segments:
1) A wide range of activities and workshops related to environmental sustainability, natural heritage, recycling, climate change and environmental best practices topics.
2) National and international projects such as trainings, seminars, exchanges, volunteering, under local, national and European programs (Erasmus+ and European Solidarity Corps);
3) Producing and participating in cultural activities of various artistic disciplines, contributing thereby to the development and dissemination of cultural heritage.
Teatro Metaphora strives to contribute to an artistic and cultural program aimed at enhancing the quality of life with meaning, not only entertainment.
The organization's activities is an essential part of overall strategy for Madeira to be a creative community, and the organization itself a meeting point for innovation and change, aimed at strengthening the excellence of our island. Teatro Metaphora promotes equal opportunities, inclusion, active citizenship and participation of children, youth and adults and creation of various opportunities for them.
💼 What the programme involves
Ce volontariat de deux mois se déroulera sur l'île de Madère, une île portugaise de l'océan Atlantique. Il s'agira d'activités liées à l'écologie, comme le nettoyage des plages et des espaces urbains, la préservation des randonnées ou la création d'œuvres d'art avec des matériaux recyclés. Il y aura également des activités d'échange culturel, la diffusion et la promotion du volontariat et du projet dans les réseaux sociaux, ainsi que l'éducation non formelle pour les jeunes locaux.
This two-month volunteering programme will take place on Madeira, a Portuguese island in the Atlantic Ocean. It will involve activities related to ecology, such as cleaning up beaches and urban spaces, preserving hikes or creating artworks with recycled materials. There will also be cultural exchange activities, dissemination and promotion of the volunteerism and the project in social networks, and non-formal education for local youth.
🏠 Accommodation on site
Les volontaires seront logés dans le bâtiment de l'association dans des chambres partagées avec des lits superposés. Une compensation financière pour la nourriture et l'argent de poche sera donnée chaque mois, et l'association prendra également en charge les billets d'avion.
Volunteers will be accommodated in the association's building in shared rooms with bunk beds. A financial compensation for food and pocket money will be given every month, and the association will also pay for the plane tickets.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: Les volontaires doivent avoir entre 18 et 30 ans au moment du début de l'activité, être motivés et sensibles à l'écologie. Il est important d'être prêt à apprendre et à interagir dans un contexte multiculturel.
Volunteers should be between 18 and 30 years old at the time of starting the activity, motivated and ecologically aware. It is important to be willing to learn and interact in a multicultural context.
Deadline: No application deadline
ℹ️ Additional information
Participants are entitled to receive a Youthpass certificate from the organiser, for recognition of their competence development during the activity. Read more about Youthpass:https://www.youthpass.eu/en/
This organisation holds a European Solidarity Corps Quality Label. The Quality Label certifies that the organisation is able to run projects in compliance with the principles and objectives of the European Solidarity Corps.