Location: Braga, Bragança, Guimarães and Sanguedo, Portugal
Coordinating organization: Youth National Office from the Portuguese Red Cross
Sending organization: “Common Sense” Youth Organization
The Youth Department of PRC – Braga was created in 2005 our goal is to involve and empower young people, promote self-confidence, cooperation and proactivity in our beneficiaries. Our target audiences are children, adolescents and young adults, who participate in the organisation as volunteers, beneficiaries or leaders/agents of positive change. We develop our work in a perspective of peer-to-peer education, using non-formal education methodologies. Our action always has in mind the promotion of Human Rights, thus we develop activities considering 6 main areas of intervention: Health Promotion and Education; Intervention for Social Inclusion; Education for Development and International Cooperation; Employability, Entrepreneurship and Active Citizenship; Environmental Education and, lastly, Humanitarian Action. The volunteers will have the opportunity to carry out activities, which promote the social inclusion of children and vulnerable young people from the Roma Community. They will have the opportunity to work in a charity shop, Ponto Vermelho, that helps and supports families in need and those fighting poverty, and also works as a second-hand shop. The volunteers can work on projects that support and promote international cooperation, including writing/implementing Erasmus+ applications and promoting Erasmus+ and ESC. There are also opportunities to integrate projects of the Braga branch of the Red Cross that are now a part of the Youth Department such as supporting the social kindergarten, the communication department, the foster care for unaccompanied children, among others, depending on the volunteers’ interests and profiles.
More detaild information about all projects can be seen under this link
Project period: A total of 5 months during the period 19/01/2026 – 19/06/2026
Deadline: 30/11/2025 23:59
How to apply? Please get a registration number, and apply through this link.
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:
Financial support – pocket money of €6 per day per month + food money (150€ per month);
A shared room – in a house with all the living conditions required by the Erasmus+ programme (rent, water, electricity and Wi-Fi for free).
Participant profile
Youngsters (preferably with fewer opportunities) between 18 to 30 years old;
With the ability to learn with new results and to adopt new behaviors; Empathetic and aware of the needs and challenges of communities;
With the ability to influence positively the peer group and the community; Aware of their role and to be able to participate in all phases of the volunteer activity in which they will be involved;
Interested in participating and contributing to volunteer activities that are oriented towards priorities and values European countries promoted by Erasmus+ and the ESC