YOUTH EXCHANGE

#hands4you

The Hands4you project is a youth exchange that arise from the slogan that SOPRO carries for more than 20 years, "Small Gestures that change the World", because we believe that a small gesture can make great changes and every gesture undertaken in this project will be special.

Início: Bem-vindo

SOPRO

SOPRO – Solidariedade e Promoção is a non-profit NGO for Development, recognized by Camões - Instituto da Cooperação e da Língua, IP (Foreign Affairs Ministry) and member of Portuguese Platform of NGO. Our mission is the “youth's education on solidarity and promotion of cooperation projects for human development in the world”. As a Lasallist association, SOPRO also supports the Christian Schools Brothers mission of “promotion integral human development and society transformation by education, solidarity and participation”.
SOPRO develops its activities at local and international level,and has made Millennium Development Goals its own purposes, working to “Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger; Achieve Universal Primary Education; Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women”.
In Barcelos area, SOPRO has developed several projects, among them: Voluntary work in close territory; School Supply Bank and SOPRO Feminino and CHEGA, projects dedicated to Gender Equality and Non-Gender Violence.

Início: Sobre meu projeto

ABOUT HANDS4YOU

Promoting human rights education, with a focus on cultural diversity and active citizenship, through the creation and development of volunteer activities by the young participants is our great challenge in this project.

The project is aimed for young people with fewer opportunities characterized by being marginalized young people with fewer opportunities and having social, economic, educational difficulties and or social, between 14 and 17 years, to be held in Barcelos and Braga (Portugal) from December 03 to 13, 2019, involving 35 participants (all genders, between 14 and 17 years) and 14 leaders (no age limit). The working language is English.

PARTNERS

CROATIA | EURO PERSPEKTIVA
SPAIN | ASOCIACIÓN ESTRELLA AZAHARA
ITALY | DE LA SALLE SOLIDARIETÀ INTERNAZIONALE ONLUS
ITALY | PROGETTO DOMANI: CULTURA E SOLIDARIETÀ
PORTUGAL | DE LA SALLE BARCELOS
UK | MERSEYSIDE EXPANDING HORIZONS LTD

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ADVANCE PLANNING VISIT

Between 18th and 21st September 2019, took place in Portugal (Barcelos) the Advance Planning Visit - APV of Hands4You project. Six institutions with two people from each partner attended: SOPRO – Solidariedade e Promoção (Portugal); Colégio La Salle (Portugal); Asocioación Estrella Azahara (Spain); Fondazione De La Salle Solidarietà Internazionale ONLUS (Italy); Merseyside Expanding Horizons Ltd (UK) and Euro Perspektiva (Croatia). This meeting aimed to present Hands4You before the project activities that will take place during youth exchange week and be able to discuss all important issues concerning youth exchange: discuss and approve the project activity plan; distribute project tasks among participants; plan the preparation of the Volunteer Project to be presented at the Youth Exchange; analyze partner and SOPRO roles; discuss travel planning and make the budget organization. There was still time for APV participants got acquainted with Barcelos city and local sights.
The main project activity is planned to take place between December 3rd and 13th, 2019, in Barcelos and Braga, involving 35 young participants and 14 leaders from different countries participants. Hands4You aims to promote human rights-based education through the creation and development of various volunteer activities aimed at young participants, focusing on cultural diversity and active citizenship.
The project is implemented with financial support of the ERASMUS + program.

Início: Assistir