On the way to BLOOM - Cavalo Amigo

Name: On the way to BLOOM - Cavalo Amigo
Start: 2019-10-01
End: 2020-09-30
Location: Figueira da Foz, Portugal

Code: f7d28592-aa14-11e9-8db8-0242ac110041 Copied

Portugal Youth activities European Voluntary Service Social work Youth activities European Voluntary Service +2 Fixed dates

About the project

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

ONLY FOR FRENCH VOLUNTEERS

Associação Sócio-Cultural is a non profit organisation founded in March 2008. BLOOM works in different regions in Portugal, mainly in the country side.Our mission: To support, consult, develop and implement social, cultural and educational projects with a national and international dimension, to empower initiatives and organisations, in the local community, mainly addressed to youth. Their objectives are:

1. To develop and implement social cultural and educational activities in order to promote the well- being.

2. To promote cooperation and to support network development.

3. To coach, support and empower local organisations and initiatives, mainly of youth and rural areas, to increase local development.

4. To promote local traditions, participation, citizenship, competences and personal skills.

5. To develop international projects, mainly at European level.

6. To foster the social cohesion, the intercultural dialogue, the mutual understanding, the tolerance, solidarity, fight against racism, human rights and equal opportunities, having as reference the European values.

7. To spread youth information and increase the access to information.

8. To support organisations by providing trainings, seminars and information meetings.

9. To promote the access to the International Fair Trade of products produced by social, economical and geographical disadvantaged producers.

10. To promote Ecological environment practices.

11. To promote the quality, quantity, value and access to national and international voluntary work.

BLOOM is managed by 5 members of the board plus 8 other members (social corps), who develop volunteer work inside BLOOM, in it’s 2 main delegations (Lousã and Figueira da foz), to empower youngsters with and without special needs/fewer opportunities and local organisations.

💼 What the programme involves

Providing therapeutic horse riding sessions to people with disabilities and special needs residing in the district of Coimbra, mainly in Figueira da Foz and Montemor-o-Velho. Our mission is to help improve the lives of people with disabilities and special needs that can benefit from horse riding and other equine related activities. We currently work on a weekly basis with over 40 children and adults who would, otherwise, not be able to afford benefiting from such an excellent therapeutic method. In order to keep our project alive, we rely on funding and on a growing network of volunteers. We are willing to improve the well- being of our community by bringing in a multicultural dimension, diversity and new approaches in our activities, organisation and local community.

Volunteers should be: open minded, feeling confident with the objectives of the Host organisations, like animals, 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 or skills.

🏠 Accommodation on site

The volunteer will share a house with other EVS volunteers, rented by the coordinating organisation. The rooms in the house are individual or shared with one other volunteer.

Transport, accomodation and food are free of charge. Pocket money is provided.

🍲 Food

The volunteers have lunch (a hot meal) in the organisation or a school canteen during week days free of charge. For all the other meals they get food allowance from the Supporting organisation.