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AMURT-Portugal is composed of a multidisciplinary and multi-generational team of 15 members
with different skills and optimal gender balance. All of them have had experience with social development, event management and inter-cultural practices, welcoming and training international volunteers or have had experience abroad at a range of levels, either on behalf of AMURT-Portugal or for academic or other professional purposes.
The organization also counts with the active participation of local volunteers and trainers. AMURT-Portugal is always looking for opportunities to bring people with different skills into the team as well as ways of sharing its interdisciplinary knowledge through projects with high social impact.
The organisation has extensive experience with international projects and with the youth, both in
local development activities in different Portuguese cities and in the training of volunteers for
activities in Europe such as Romania, Denmark, Spain, UK and in developing countries such as India,
Nepal, Ghana, Mozambique, Brazil and Haiti - through projects such as “SOS Schools”.
Besides our close contact with other AMURT delegations abroad and with projects in places like
Mozambique, Nigeria, Ghana, the USA, Brazil, India and Bangladesh, we have had close collaboration with AMURT Haiti, Nepal, Italy, Denmark and Romania. This gives us the possibility to exchange knowledge and experience relating to volunteer projects, personal and social development activities and even provide support to fundraising campaigns. We are also working in
coordination with AMURTEL USA and Neo Humanist Foundation UK. In the last year we have cooperated with AMURT UK in a disaster relief programme focusing on providing aid to families who lost their homes in the fires that destroyed large swathes of central Portugal in the summer of 2017. AMURT Portugal is still active regarding Covid19, providing food and basic necessities for those in need in Porto, Covilha area and Lisbon.
In Lisbon in coordination with a network of local associations, AMURT Portugal is running a project
called "Partilhar" that is collecting and distributing household goods to support impoverished families. "Partilhar" is also working in partnership with Sociedade Musicale Simpatia e Gratidão to
support the children of a local orphanage and the Xinti Bem women, a group of aging Caape Verdean women,
through, yoga and arts programmes, coaching and lifestyle training.
In the Covilha area AMURT Portugal is a partner in the development of the "Ananda Valley" eco-community project ( www.anandavalley.org ) and together with our partner associations, is organising EU supported youth exchanges as well as retreats, camps, seminars and cultural programmes on topics ranging from personal to social development.
In 2019 we hold the forth international festival, "Ananda Festival of Bliss".
In October 2017 AMURT participated in a project called Agri-Urban (an EU project) in the Fundao area and the same month became a recognised advisor to the Fundao municipality representing the organic sector.
AMURT’s activities in the area have also included the formation of a biological producers’ and consumers’ association called BioEco in collaboration with other associations and interested individuals from around the region. AMURT Portugal currently holds the vice-presidency. BioEco promotes the creation of awareness of the value of organic food and organises regular monthly farmers’ markets with the support of the Fundao city hall and the municipalities of Covilha city and Alpedrinha and Penamacor villages, selling produce to the public and carrying out a range of
workshops and activities to promote ecological and sustainable practices. BioEco is now setting up a food cooperative which will have around 75 members.
Smaller local projects include regular visits to a retirement home in Paul village and help with the
organisation of monthly international cultural nights at Ananda Cafe, a vegetarian/vegan restaurant in Covilha city run by our former AMURT Portugal president. AMURT also cooperated in the organisation of an Economic Democracy conference at the University of Beira Interior in Covilha in 2018 and 2020 and in organising "A New Vision for Europe: Systems Change and Sustainability" in Lisbon 2020.
Since 2015 our AMURT Portugal delegation has hosted 6 EVS volunteers in different projects for 12
month periods.
Under ESC program AMURT Portugal sent 3 volunteers in 2019 as a sending organisation and this
year we will host 2 volunteers from French Guyana.
In 2019 we hosted 3 youth exchanges, and for 2020 we have planned 3 exchanges and one training course.
AMURT Portugal is as well partner in several KA2 projects.
Thanks to all that contacted us! We are open for partnership for KA2 and KA3. Our main topics are Environment, Healthy lifestyle, Arts, Self-improvement, ect.
The project is focus on self-development, yoga, meditation and connection with the nature and local community. Intercultural learning is the base.
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AMURT Portugal is
Social and humanitarian international NGO, active in more than 80 countries. It aims to improve the quality of life of people around the world.
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