| Summary of the project: | Project Environment:
Casa Pia de Lisboa (CPL) is a public organisation founded on 1780. The foundation of CPL comes after the Earthquake of 1755 that happened in Lisbon and intended to provide assistance the poor, orphans and abandonen children, providing education opportunities.
Nowadays CPL has 10 different establishments that offer protection to children, young people and their families. At the mome nt CPL protects 310 children and young people.
The CED Francisco Margiochi is one of the 10 establishments of CPL. It’s a pedagogical farm located in Quinta do Arrife that manages different projects related to biologic agriculture and environment awareness mainly for children and young people from the local community and from CPL schools: weather station, take care of autochthonous plants, take care of local animals, beekeeping, birds projects, paper and material recycling, bicycle riding, production of biological agriculture, traditional games, trainings for CPL workers and partners in the field of agriculture
and environment, traditional gastronomy, citizenship and arts project, computers project, national plan of reading, national plan of Maths, Summer Camps, etc.
The CED Francisco Margiochi is located inside of the National Park of Serra de Aires e Candeeiros. Quinta do Arrife occupies 62 hectares mostly composed by forest vegetation. The CED Francisco Margiochi is located 25 km far from the city of Torres Novas. The most important economic activities are ceramics, furniture, commerce, agriculture and livestock, forestry, extractive industry, food industry, civil construction, tourism, environment and investigation.
The council of Torres Novas is located 110 km far from Lisbon and 1 hour distance from the airport. It makes border with Tomar, Alcanena, Santarém, Golegã and Entroncamento.
Tasks for volunteer:
- Environment and Biologic Activities: workshops to make traditional bread and jams, workshops about recycling, reusing materials and protection of Nature, visit to the forest, separation of waste in the eco point ; take care of animals and plants, birds observation, etc.
- Summer Camps: animate and implement leisure time activities for children and youn gsters, with an entertaining but also educational purpose.
Therefore, the idea is to have a variety of activities where the children and youngsters can learn, have fun and occupy their free times in Summer Camps in a healthy way.
- Outdoor Activities: promote environment tours, adventure sports, outdoor games, etc. During the activity, they can also be responsible for monitoring the group and leading the activities.
- Promote European Voluntary Service and other youth activities : the EVS volunteers will giv e visibility to their EVS activity, in order to motivate more young people to participate on EVS and in other youth activities like youth exchanges. This can contribute to expand their perspectives of the future and participate actively in the society. The y can organise exhibitions and presentations in schools and in youth clubs, etc.
- Participation in the planning of the work: the volunteers will attend to the planning meeting where the specific objectives and activities are defined on a regular basis. In these meetings they can propose ideas to implement, propose solutions for specific problems, become aware of the working methodologies of the organisation, place their doubts or questions about the work, evaluate, etc.
- Personal project: Promote a personal project that comes in accordance with the regular philosophy of the hosting organisation. The tasks presented will be developed by the volunteers according to their profile and to the hosting organisation’s needs.
Profile of the volunteer:
Special interest or previous experience to work in environment awareness field; motivated to work in a rural area; motivated to work with children and young people, self-motivated, dynamic, versatile, good mood, flexible, with self initiative, creative, with handwork skills, willing to take on new challenges, opened to work with people of all backgrounds and cultures; enthusiasti c to participate in the project; willing to develop new activities and with sense of responsibility. |
