Portugal: ESC: FOSTER HOME

About the local hosting organization

ProAtlântico, founded in 2001 in Oeiras, promotes activities for youth and seniors, focusing on inclusion, cultural exchange, and personal development.ProAtlântico - Associação Juvenil was founded in 2001 is based in Porto Salvo, Oeiras, and carries out activities with children, young people, elderly people, and handicapped people, mainly in Oeiras Municipality.Most of the activities with children and young people take place during the school breaks, such as sport tournaments, National and International exchanges, and entertaining and cultural activities; and after school, as educational support. We try to help these young people to develop life skills, to be more independent.Along the year we have several projects with elder people, as summer camps, Cultural Trips, New Year party, and balls.In 2003, we started to work with Youth Program, and we took part in youth exchanges and in several training courses and seminars around Europe.Today ProAtlântico – Associação Juvenil has more than 10.000 members, and gives special attention to needy people, and those with less opportunities. And aims to give people the chance to establish contact with other cultures, in order to help them to find ways to deal with their own problems and to break the existing prejudices.

Presentation of the programme

Animate and implement leisure time activities (ex: sports, music, singing, dance, theatre, handicrafts, watching movies, thematic conversations, etc.) 

About the accomodation

Accompany children in outside activities of the foster home (ex: go to the doctor, take children to/from school/playground/cultural places, etc.)

About the leisure activities

Motivate children/youngsters to study (ex: English language tutoring, Maths …) and to complete their objectives (ex: with creative methods like games, music, quiz, etc.) and assist them in computers (ex: internet search, Word, Excel, Power point, etc.)

Requirements

The Participant profile: Propose and implement specific activities related to the period of the holidays/ weekends (ex: Christmas theatre play, build Carnival masks, games with Easter eggs, Summer camps, birthdays, etc.)Deadline: