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STAGE ON THE STREET: ALL INCLUDED

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Portugal Culture People with disabilities Festival Manual work Culture People with disabilities +2 Fixed dates

About the project

STAGE ON THE STREET: ALL INCLUDED

📝 Detailed information

🏢 About the local organisation

- To support the local community, namely the Cooperative Cercimarante, an institution linked to young people with disabilities, in the preparation of the Street Theatre;- Developing the autonomy and self-esteem of young people with disabilities;- Stimulating the contact of young people with fewer opportunities with other young people from different cultures;- Fostering the personal and social development of young volunteers through non-formal education activities;- Providing young volunteers with knowledge of a new social and cultural reality enabling them to combat any kind of prejudice and stereotypes;- To promote the preservation and protection of cultural heritage at international and local level through direct contact and inclusion of the participants with the community of Amarante and with the heritage of the region, organising public actions/events such as the Intercultural Night and presentation of the different countries and cultures;- Promoting human rights and values of tolerance and respect.

💼 What the programme involves

Activities: group dynamics; presentation to the city and region; discussion on the workcamp theme (objectives, tasks division); visit to the most important places of the city; training on theatre performance and workshop on how to deal with the difference; direct contact and work with local NGO (Cercimarante) responsible for activities with local handicapped young people; organize an event (theatre performance) involving both groups (workcamp participants and local handicapped young people) to be presented to the local community (street performance ( expected more than 500 persons to attend);

🏠 Accommodation on site

Participants will be accommodated in shared rooms (4 participants each) of Casa da Juventude de Amarante. Casa da Juventude de Amarante has its own kitchen, WC, and showers. In terms of food, our youth centre has a bar\restaurant proposal for the volunteers (breakfast, lunch, and dinner) always taking into consideration our aims (healthy food with organic and vegetarian ingredients). Laundry available (self-service). Our youth centre has free wireless.

📍 About the location

Amarante is a small town in the North of Portugal, part of Porto district (60km far from Porto to the interior) with 12 thousand inhabitants (in the city center). It is a quite famous city for tourism, culture, and wine production. Indeed, is quite near (18km) the Oporto wine region. Is crossed by TEmega River (one of the rivers ending at Douro River that crosses Porto till the Atlantic Ocean) and it is on the valley of one of the most important Portuguese mountains, MarEpoundo (1450m). Amarante is well located (nearby passes highway A4 connecting to Oporto and highway A11 connecting to GuimarEpoundes) and has a good public transport system (bus station). The city is 40 min way from the nearest airport (Oporto) by car.

⚠️ Requirements

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STAGE ON THE STREET: ALL INCLUDED
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📅 Available sessions

PT-IPDJ 9.1

07/07/2026 → 18/07/2026

Closed
Volunteers registered 0 / 17
♂ 0/8 ♀ 0/9

ℹ️ Key information

Age required

18–30 years old

Solidarity donation

0.00

French tax residents may be eligible for a tax reduction of up to 66% of their costs (membership, plane tickets, solidarity donation).

📍 Location

4600 Amarante, Portugal

Portugal

🌍 Location info

Local currency

Euro Member Countries (EUR / €)

Timezone

Western European Summer Time

Local time: 21:49 (12/11/2026)

✅ Features

🏠 Accommodation

Collective

🗣️ Languages spoken

English Portuguese