Volunteering promotes and favors positive changes in the world we live in: it fights inequalities, responds to the challenges and needs of communities, leading to transformation. Thus, volunteering is a great expression of human relations: people acting on behalf of their community, by the desire to contribute and help.
We created Voluntaria*te (the volunteering service at UCP-Braga) because we believe we can make a difference. We don't want to be indifferent. We want to be part of the solution for a better world!
Our goals:
- To develop initiatives and create partnerships that allow to dynamize consequent activities and that favor the formation of conscious and participative citizens;
- Raise awareness and encourage the academic community to get involved in the initiatives, mobilizing people and resources , creating a "solidarity network" committed to what surrounds us, in favor of the "common good".
Our strategy:
The involvement of the entire academic community (employees, faculty/non-teaching staff and students).
Who is our team?
Coordination Committee:
Silvia Gonçalves | Coordenadora
Adriana Rodrigues
António Fernandes
Berta Maia
Carla Ferreira
Diana Silva
Maria José Barbosa
Valmir Delfes
Partner institutions:
APAV (Associação Portuguesa de Apoio à Vítima); Cáritas Jovem de Braga; CSBJ (Casa de Saúde do Bom Jesus); Centro de Acolhimento O’ Poverello; Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa – Delegação de Braga (CVP Braga); Cruz Vermelha Portuguesa – Delegação de Guimarães (CVP Guimarães); IMA (Instituto Monsenhor Airosa); Projeto Homem (Centro de Solidariedade de Braga); Refood; Rotary Club – Hora do Conto; Entre outras.
