Group Friendship

Where you come from – where are you going

The Group, a Friendship was formed, informally, for more than 37 years of age.
It is a Youth organization, a member of the Federation of the Communities of the Santa Maria da Feira, Registered on IPDJ/ RNAJ, which is the result of a merger between the group's Friendship with the origin in the groups of young people from the Parish of St. John's – View, and the network operations center, the center for conscientious objectors

The principal activities of

His main work is devoted to the occupation of the leisure time of young people, and in education for Peace and Citizenship. It develops its action through meetings, training, study tours, student exchanges, cultural activities, sports and entertainment, which includes the activity of “the greatest” – on the camp – this year it's going to the thirty-seventh year. In these camps, participating in more than 180 young people aged 12 to 20 years of age, many of the free, where they do a massive exercise in social inclusion. It's not a “holiday” but only a “preparation for life” through reflection, silence, sharing, prayer, and chores. No one carries a phone, a computer or any other equipment, “the loner”. There are 15 days of introspection and commitment to change. It involved young people from all social strata, political, economic, religious, etc., provided they agree to abide by the rules and regulations and the appropriate program.

Other measures of relief: vacation, sports, leisure, descend to the river Vouga, in the Cockpit, on the feast of the carnival, a meeting with the members of the families of the campers, hiking trips, outreach, workshops, screening health care, cultural trips, etc.

Solidarity

In parallel, it has also often promoted charitable campaigns and partnerships with other Organizations ( Health-care Unit to Care for, Them,- to reconstruction of a school in Angola, in Angola, the reconstruction of a hospital in Timor-Leste, a water pipe in the Village, Malanza St. Thomas, the purchase of a tractor and a motobomba to Contoboel, the republic of Guinea-Bissau - Portuguese League Against Cancer, the Association of the Alcohol are Recovered from the Santa Maria da Feira, Medieval Market in Madeira, Wood,..).
After many years as an informal Association, has decided to establish itself legally as an Association, to be published in the official Gazette of the Republic of the III Series, 05 of November, 2004, and is up-to-date, we continue to tirelessly work with and for young people.

At present, the Institution does not want to replace all the young people want to work with them, and engaging them in the discovery and making, either because they are the protagonists of their own liberation.


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