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Portugal: ANOTHER WORLD IS POSSIBLE (PT-IPJ 11.6)

Dates

19/09/2025 - 30/09/2025

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Age: 18 - 30

Max number of volunteers: 17

Still room for: 6 Male + 3 Female

Languages: English

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Nearest bus/train station: -

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Work

Volunteers will be involved in the following work/tasks:- Agriculture in different local/organic farms;- Gardening at the local Urban Garden (Horta Urbana de Amarante);- Cleaning the river sides;- Organize climate actions/challenges;- Promoting local, organic and fair trade products.

Accomodation and food

Participants will be accommodated in shared rooms (4 participants each) of Casa da Juventude de Amarante. Casa da Juventude de Amarante is in the city center of Amarante (just 10m walking distance from the bus station) and 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). This youth centre has free wireless.

Location and leisure

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)

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Aims: Support to local/regional organic farmers to raise awareness among the participants and the population on organic farms, organic food and fair trade; to develop skills related to agriculture work in organic farms and environment preservation; to run activities in order to increase the level of commitment at local level (Amarante) for organic and Fair-Trade products

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Requirements

Bring-Hygiene products and sun protector;-Swimming suits;-Working and sports clothes and shs.

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