“Active CIA – Civic Intergenerational Agents” is a shared experienced workcamp, where the volunteers will have the opportunity to share their own cultural, such are music, food, dances, etc. And the elders will have the chance to get in touch with youngsters from different countries. This intercultural learning and intergenerational meeting will be really important for the elders and also for the volunteers.
The main activities are:

1- Intercultural workshops (1 per day and per country) – This activity will be organized 1 day per country, the volunteers will present their countries (culture, language, food, etc), the volunteers can bring typical clothes and food from their countries.

2- Company program for elders in isolated situation - This activity will be made in groups of 4/5 people, always with a Portuguese volunteer or 1 of the workcamp leaders, for help with the communication. The activities with the elders will be programmed with the volunteers, for also collect opinion and possible suggestions that they have.

3- Personal project that the volunteers can developed in the big group, alone or in pairs – In the personal project the volunteers will have the opportunity to developed their creativity and the entrepreneurship. They will have the opportunity to work in pairs or in a big group, depending of the preferences in the social themes (youngsters, disabled, elders, children and environment). They will create their own project, looking around to social problems that exists in the world and also in their own communities, projects that can make the difference in their own community.

The volunteers will have leisure time for visit around, during this 10 days The volunteers will have a free day on Sunday in the 7th day of the workcamp, in this way the volunteers will have the have the opportunity to know more things about the Portuguese culture and the city.

- Associação Mimi - Rua de Terremoínhos, 23, 288 Monte Córdova- Santo Tirso (41°19'17.7"N 8°25'16.8"W) Santo Tirso is a city in the north of Portugal, 30 km from Porto, check the location in the pictures attached. For more info you can contact: Helena Teixeira: +351 910715714 / Cristina Nunes: + 351 910217842


Meeting Point
In the train station of Santo Tirso, at the address Rua Dr. Oliveira Salazar, 4785 Santo Tirso, we will pick you up from 15 till 20 p.m, on 8th July, if you are coming late please let us know on time to arrange the transportation.
A workcamp leader or coordinator will pick you up.
For more info: Helena Teixeira: +351 910715714 , Cristina Nunes: + 351 910217842


How to reach to...?
The best way of reaching the center is by metro. Metro from Porto Airport starts going from 5:58 am and goes with a half an hour frequency. The metro ticket for one ride costs 2.95? since you will pay the 2,35? Z5 electronic ticket + the 0.60? blue card, which is reusable, and you keep charging it with electronic tickets as many times as you want.

Take the metro from the airport (Purple line - E) direction Estádio do Dragão and get out in Campanhã, and go out from the metro and buy the train ticket to Santo Tirso, the price of the ticket is 2,35?, the train frequency is around 1h, and it takes 30 min to reach the train station of Santo Tirso.

If you come by bus, you want to leave the Lisbon airport by Metro (subway) and exit at the Jardim Zoológico station where you will find the bus terminal connection. Buses pretty much run in the Lisbon-Porto direction every hour, with an approximate cost of ?20 (one direction). You can check the schedules for buses here https://www.rede-expressos.pt/default.aspx. When you reach the last station in Porto, take the metro in campo 24 de Agosto, buy the ticket that is 1,20?+0.60?, validate the ticket before enter wait for the green light. When you where inside of the metro, get out in Campanhã, and go out from the metro and buy the train ticket to Santo Tirso, the price of the ticket is 2,35?, the train frequency is around 1h, and it takes 30 min to reach the train station of Santo Tirso.

If you plan to take the train, you can catch it at the Oriente train station and you can check prices and schedules here https://www.cp.pt/passageiros/en. It should be cheaper and more reliable to take the bus trip, as it gives you more options per day, but it’s a matter of finding what’s best for your particular travel scenario. By train from Lisbon: If you are coming by train you must get out in Estação de Campanhã in Porto and then buy the train ticket to Santo Tirso, the price of the ticket is 2,35?, the train frequency is around 1h, and it takes 30 min to reach the train station of Santo Tirso

-The accommodation will be in the workcamp place in “Associação Mimi”, in Rua de Terremoínhos, 23, 288 Monte Cordova- Santo Tirso.

- It will be mixed dorm in an open space, its necessary to bring sleeping bags (if it’s necessary, we can separate the volunteers according to the gender), with toilets, bath (warm and cold).

- The place have wifi connection

- The breakfast and the dinner will be provided by the hosting organization in “Associação Mimi”, will be cooked by the organizers of the camp.

- The lunch will provide in the day centers that we will do the workcamps activities, in the days that we will do the activities with the elders in isolation situation, the lunch will be a kind of picnic, in the park of Santo Tirso, provided by the hosting organization.

- The coffee breaks will be given before leaving the accommodation in small bags.

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What to Bring
– towel, sleeping bag, medicines, comfortable clothes, typical music, food and clothes.

Conditions of participation (internal rules of the camp)
Respect each other, respect the place and the people from the workcamp and the place that you are host; clean the space that is for everybody to use.

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