🏢 About the local organisation
Onda Verde – Associação Juvenil de Ambiente e Aventura, was founded in 1996, in Avintes, Vila Nova de Gaia. It has more than 900 members, most of them youngsters.
The main objectives of the organization are: to defend and preserve nature, to occupy young people's free time with sports activities, to make youth more sensitive to environmental problems, both rural and urban, and to encourage them to be active in this field.
In the International field, we have been active since 2002, and we have already participated in more than 100 Erasmus+ and EVS/ESC projects (be it Exchanges, Seminars and Volunteering Projects). Our activities are dedicated not only to members of the organization, but also to the local community.
In our organization dynamic, many activities are carried out in Schools, promoting Environmental Education and the practice of Sports. Seasonally we carry out more outdoor activities, such as: canoeing, rock climbing, slide, paintball, hiking, etc.
The monitoring of volunteers, the creation and promotion of activities, the management of projects and other issues related to international projects are already common practice among members of the organization. We have had success stories with the volunteers we received and where strong bonds of friendship are created that still persist today and some volunteers even chose to return to Portugal, after finishing their project and making their lives here.
We are Members of the Board of FAJDP - Federação das Associações Juvenis do Distrito do Porto (President Marco Santos is from Onda Verde), of CPADA - Confederação Portuguesa das Associações de Defesa do Ambiente, of FNAJ - Federação Nacional das Associações Juvenis, of FABP - Federação dos Arqueiros e Besteiros de Portugal, of FCMP - Federação de Campismo e Montanhismo de Portugal and of FPCUB - Federação Portuguesa de Cicloturismo e Utilizadores de Bicicleta, among others.
💼 What the programme involves
A project designed to draw children's and young people's attention to the importance of preserving and protecting the nature. The volunteers will help us in various activities related to the environmental and "non-formal" education by practicing radical sports and organizing many outdoor activities, they will develop the project that aims to draw youngsters with less opportunities and in risk of social expulsion closer to the nature and by the help of the non formal education methods will try to promote the social and educative integration, the volunteers will give our project new perspectives and at the same time they will have the possibility to interact with the local community and gain the best voluntary experience ever.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: The volunteer must demonstrate flexibility and availability to work as part of a group and willingness to learn new things. In addition, you must be a person who likes to interact with others, who is communicative and interactive, since most of our work is based on interpersonal relationships. We also require someone who is willing to take the initiative, show interest in Portuguese culture and is eager to learn. Onda Verde is an environmental youth organization and, we are looking for someone who likes Nature, sport and who knows or be able to know how to interact with disadvantaged people.
Deadline: Application deadline: 21/11/2021
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.