📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
The Association “A Casa de Betânia” - is a private Institution of Social Solidarity, non-profit, whose objective is the family, social and professional integration of young people and adults with learning difficulties or mild and moderate intellectual disability.
Casa de Betânia believes in community-based rehabilitation, so it seeks to create small communities of life, homes where each person with intellectual disability can be and feel independent, with their own values and rights and the same dignity than any other citizen - the right to love and be loved, the right to experience friendship and fellowship, the right to specific training in order to be able to achieve a work activity or other tasks according to his aptitudes.
The life project in the residences of “A Casa de Betânia” is based on the experience of its founding partners, who, together, have elaborated basic texts that constitute their identity, pedagogical experience, spirituality and lifestyle with people with and without disabilities, as well as all forms of relationship between communities and the surrounding society and the Church.
“Casa de Betânia” adopts strategies for the socio-labor insertion of its residents, whenever possible, in regular or vocational education or in rehabilitation centers that can lead to insertion in society and the performance of a work activity that adapts to their specific capabilities.
Casa de Betânia has 3 different equipments, all of them located in Oeiras municipality:
*Casa de Betânia
*Casa da Fonte
*Casa do Farol
💼 What the programme involves
9899 - The Association A Casa de Betânia was founded in 1992 and inaugurated its first Residential Home in 1994. Its mission is to guarantee a family life and socially dignified to the person with a mental disability. Through the personal relation established volunteers can monitor leisure activities, support in Psychomotricity & cognitive stimulation, help in the daiy life activities, mediate conflicts in the activities & find creative ways to educate clients for health, hygiene & personal image.
🏠 Accommodation on site
ProAtlântico will provide €5 to cover costs of food and extra expenses during non-working time. During working time the receiving organization provides suitable meal in the organization’s facilities, which is based on a Mediterranean diet. ProAtlântico provides accommodation in an apartment, University residence, hostel, hosting family in multiple bedroom with fully equipped kitchen, toilet and living room - electricity, water, gas, TV and Internet are covered by the project. The volunteers will have towels and bed clothes. A monthly local transport allowance is provided by the RO.
🎒 Leisure activities
on-arrival training - mid-term training - Online Linguistic Support - Other important subjects
⚠️ Requirements
The Participant profil: In general, the profile of the volunteers must be very human, self-motivated, creative, open minded, tolerant with self-initiative, willing to take on new challenges, very flexible and ready to help in different tasks, with good adaption to different realities and ready to live with different conditions and environments they are used to in their original country.
Deadline: Application deadline: 30/06/2021
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.