Location: Portugal

Hosting organisation: Portuguese Red Cross

Sending organisation: “Common Sense” Youth Organisation

Are you ready to create meaningful change and dive into the heart of Portuguese culture?
Starting in June 2025, the Portuguese Red Cross Youth will host 11 passionate young volunteers for a transformative 5-month European Solidarity Corps experience across Bragança, Braga, Cucujães, Sanguedo, and Guimarães.

What You’ll Do:

Join us in fostering solidarity among children and youth, while promoting inclusion and breaking down barriers of nationality, gender, and race. Your activities will focus on key themes such as:

  • Health Promotion & Education: Encourage healthy habits and behaviors as part of young people’s development.
  • Social Inclusion & Gender Equality: Help integrate children and youth facing social exclusion through innovative programs
  • Development & International Cooperation: Advocate for Human Rights and promote peace through educational programs on humanitarian values.
  • Empowerment & Active Citizenship: Build skills and promote entrepreneurship while supporting volunteering initiatives.
  • Environmental Education: Raise awareness of eco-friendly habits for a greener planet.
  • Humanitarian Education: Foster respect for diversity, peace, and non-violence through engaging activities.

Why Join Us?

You’ll have the opportunity to participate in projects that are constantly evolving, giving you the chance to shape your own volunteering journey. You’ll be involved in activities that promote personal and social skills, and given the flexibility to try new things and engage with our dynamic community.
The work of the Portuguese Red Cross Youth spans six key areas: Health Promotion, Social Inclusion, Development Education, Active Citizenship, Environmental Awareness, and Humanitarian Action. You’ll have the freedom to bring your ideas to life while gaining new skills and making a lasting impact.

There are several branches of the Portuguese Red Cross which accept volunteers (Bragança, Braga, Cucujães, Sanguedo, Guimarães). The different branches are in different cities and offer different volunteering vacancies with sometimes different tasks. Please inform yourself through this link about the different branches and their vacancies and decide which one to apply to.

Project period – 06/2025 to 10/2025

Deadline: 27/02/2025

How to apply? – Please get a registration number, and send your CV and motivation letter as well as the branch you want to join to JUVENTUDE4@CRUZVERMELHA.ORG.PT.

How to get a registration number? – If you don’t have an account on European Youth
Portal, please watch our instruction videos from this Link


All costs are covered by European Solidarity Corps

No participation fee! 

Language: English

Accommodation, food and transport arrangements: 

The volunteer will be provided with all of the necessities like housing by the hosting organisation. Local transportation and a language course for the portuguese language area also included. More details are to be asked from the hosting organization. The travel costs will be reimbursed according to the distance calculator of the European Union.  

Application conditions and requirements for volunteering: 

✔ good level of English knowledge
✔ Between 18 and 30 years old
✔ Likes to work in a team
✔ passionate about youth work
✔ patient and empathetic while being communicative and engaged
✔ creative and curious with a willingness to learn languages

Sending organisation information
Name of the sending organisation: “Common Sense” Youth Organisation
OID number : E10200624
City and country of your sending organisation: Sumgait, Azerbaijan
Person in charge (name and surname): Ramiz Aliyev
E-mail of the person in charge: evs@csyo-az.org