Short-term (2 to 4 weeks) "work with elderly people" project in Portugal

Centro de Promoção Social de Carvalhais (CPS) is a private social solidarity centre. Its main activities are professional training courses (Professional School for Youth and Adult Training Courses), organic agriculture projects, social support to elderly people and disadvantaged families, communitarian intervention and promotion of intercultural activities. All the work is based in partnership and networking with other local institutions. The main aim of the Centre is to promote local and sustainable development.

The main aim of this workcamp is to innovate and renovate animation practices and activities, in both a holiday camp for children and a daily centre for elderly people, offering alternative and non-conventional activities that stimulate creativity, affording the opportunity of a different week; favouring art and intercultural experiences, as instruments and ways of expression (drama, moulding, music, dance, craft, recicl’art, etc), using each workcamp participants' abilities.

All the participants should be able to plan, organize and conduct animation workshops/dynamics, aimed to the children from the holiday camp, and to the elderly people from the daily centre (dynamic, adapting to the target-audience, materials, facilities, activities evaluation), as well as be of assistance in the audience (children and elderly people) daily activities. Meanwhile, the participants will be sharing with each other their own knowledge and experience. No special skills are required!

Another task is to select and organize information in order to develop a booklet, describing the activities developed during the workcamp. Its aim is for other leaders, in a near future, be able to learn, explore and use this knowledge in other similar activities.

During the workcamp, the participants will get to know the local landscape (mountains, river, and typical villages) and visit Viseu, a nearby city. Some of the dynamics, organized by the camp leaders, will promote the exchange of intercultural experiences in many different ways!

At a students residence, with shared bedrooms. Meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner) will be held at a school canteen. Some of them will be shared with the children and/or the elderly people. All dinners are cooked by the participants, with the assistance of a staff person from the Centre. One dinner, during the workcamp, will be reserved for all the participants to cook typical meals from their own countries. Don’t forget to bring delicious recipes!

The workcamp will be held in a rural village called Carvalhais, located in a mountainous region, near São Pedro do Sul, Viseu.

Viseu/Porto.

18-30