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What is it?
The Volunteer Centre of the Eugénio de Almeida Foundation is an
initiative of this institution that aims to promote, develop and
qualify volunteering and to create specific conditions for its pursuit.
The Centre is an integrated project that helps to coordinate supply and
demand for volunteering in the Évora region, providing information,
training and other support for organisations and volunteers as well as
technical, human and operative resources for their management.
Based at the Eugénio de Almeida Foundation, in Évora, the Volunteer
Centre can be contacted online or directly, at its headquarters.
What are its objectives?
Its general objectives are:
• To develop and promote Volunteering;
• To reconcile supply and demand for Volunteering;
• To raise awareness of Volunteering among citizens and institutions;
• To publicise Volunteering projects and opportunities;
• To increase knowledge on Volunteering.
Specifically, it proposes:
• To accept applications from people interested in participating in
Volunteering projects as well as to receive requests for volunteers
from institutions promoting Volunteering programmes/projects;
• To refer volunteers to institutions promoting Volunteering programmes/projects;
• To follow up the integration of volunteers in institutions promoting Volunteering programmes/projects;
• To promote structured and continuing training for people who carry out or intend to carry out volunteering;
• To develop Volunteering Projects;
• To provide information and documentation on the subject of
Volunteering at a local, regional, national and international level.
Who is it intended for?
For volunteers,
regardless of their age, gender or convictions, who wish to make
themselves available funds to participate in volunteering projects in
the Évora region; to attend training courses in this field; to increase
their knowledge on this subject; and to obtain information on
volunteering initiatives developed by the Centre or by other entities
of local, national and international scope.
For organisations**,
both public and private, charitable or not, which promote or intend to
promote volunteering projects and programmes in the Évora region. For
anyone interested in the issue of volunteering who wants to collect
information and documentation on the subject; and to know about or join
in the activities developed by the Centre.
**The Volunteer Centre can also list, for information purposes,
volunteering programmes and projects of organisations based outside the
Évora region. In those cases it is not a mediator directly involved in
the placing and follow-up of volunteers, referring any contact to those
responsible for the institution.
How does it work?
For the Volunteer Centre, this site is an essential tool to achieve its mission.
The Centre operates in four key areas:
• Database – It receives online
registrations from volunteers and from the institutions that wish to
receive volunteers. After validation, through personal contact, of the
elements submitted in the registrations, searchable information is
recorded through the database. It provides online listings of
volunteers and organisations, by areas of action, and other relevant
information to make it easier to match supply and demand for
volunteering opportunities. It refers volunteers to the various
institutions, and follows up their performance. The Centre guarantees
protection of personal data.
• Training – It promotes
structured and continuing training aimed at people who carry out or
intend to carry out volunteer activities. It holds workshops, meetings
and seminars to exchange experiences and assessment of results. It
collaborates with entities promoting volunteering programmes/projects
in the training of their volunteers. The Eugénio de Almeida Foundation
is accredited by the IQF to provide training.
• Projects – It conceives and
develops volunteering projects. It organises structured activities with
volunteers, in particular, aimed at social and outreach volunteering,
cultural volunteering, or company voluntary schemes. The philosophy of
the development of these projects, focused on enhancing and promoting
volunteering, is based on collaboration and partnership with other
entities that wish to be associated with the Centre.
• Information – It provides
online bibliographic databases with records of articles, books,
magazines and bulletins on volunteering, as well as other types of
organised information, such as research, technical and scientific
documents and legislation that regulates volunteering. It provides
information on key local, national and international
initiatives/events, through online an Events and News service. |
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