🏢 About the local organisation
The mission of ARCIL is to promote care and rehabilitation services to persons with disability or in a situation of exclusion, aiming their social and professional integration. ARCIL develops several activities, structured in Rehabilitation Services and Production Unities.
Rehabilitation Services includes:
Childhood and Youth Program- to promote personal, family and social development of children and youth with special development problems and/or with trouble in their social insertion process;
CAO Program (Occupational Activities Centre) - to stimulate and develop lingering capacities, promoting self- valorisation, social integration and well-being; to promote self- sufficiency through the development of socially useful activities; Professional Training Program - to raise jobs and encourage social and economic insertion through information, evaluation and professional guiding, training, job insertion and follow-up;
Sheltered Employment Program (CEPARCIL) - to assure employment in production or service units, as a means of personal and professional valorisation of disabled people, and making it easy for them to have access to regular job market;
Residential Program - to promote the development of personal and social abilities, to raise self sufficiency and cooperation and solidarity relations and to promote communitary integration;
Complementary activities - sports, music, physiotherapy, occupational therapy, hipotherapy, clinical psychology, expressions (dance, music, acting, painting, adventure sports), holiday trips, snoezelen, work medicine, dentist and physiatrist.
The area of Production involves:
Production and services unities that assures employment as a mean of personal and professional valorisation of disabled people and as a mean to self-support financially the association
• ARCILMADEIRAS wood sawing, pallets production, carpentry, wood boxes
• ARCILAGRO, agriculture and cattle breeding
• ARCILSAÚDE, physiotherapy, physiatrist and hydrotherapy
• ARCILVERDE, conception, maintenance and irrigation systems of gardens
• ARCILCERÂMICA, production of handicraft ceramic products to adornment and use
• ARCILLAV, laundry and cleaning services.
💼 What the programme involves
ARCIL is a non for profit organization working in the fields of Disability, Rehabilitation and Inclusion since 1976. From Early Intervention to Labour Market Integration, the focus of ARCIL is to promote social inclusion and Quality of Life of individuals with disability and/or restrictions to participation throughout their lifespan. The mission of ARCIL is to co-create life projects with each person, believing in the community's inclusive potential. Typical activities of volunteers: Occupational activities: helping people with a disability in the pottery, music classes, sport activities or helping in the residencies for adults and youngsters; activities for disadvantaged young people the main objective is to support a small group of disadvantaged young people and young people with disabilities or special educational needs and propose them some activities, motivating them to participate more in future projects and many other activities.
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profile: We appreciate young volunteers that are: open minded, feeling confident with the objectives of the Host organisations, are creative, taking initiatives, having a sense of responsibilities, organised and able to adapt to different conditions of living and work, flexible to establish relations with different persons. It’s very interesting when volunteers have special abilities to contribute to the projects, although it’s not necessary to have any special knowledge, education, skills.
Deadline: Application deadline: 01/02/2023
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.