FOUNDATION OF ARDINA (IPSS)

The Association of Protection of the Ardinas, currently assigned for Foundation Workmanship of the Ardina, appeared in 1942, due one the deep necessities of the Ardinas that proclaimed periodicals in the streets of Lisbon, which if had essentially the low social, economical and cultural conditions evidenced by these young. Collated with this reality, the Moreira Priest organizes activities, as courses of learning the language, colonies of vacation and lunches/conviviality’s offered for the Feminine Portuguese Youth, with the goal of allowing a personal and social valuation, and providing a steady and balanced professional future.

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SOCIAL CENTER OF MUSGUEIRA (IPSS)

The Social Center of the Musgueira had its geneses in 1963, when a group of many volunteers stimulated by Jose Manuel of Rocha and Melo s.j decides “to lie down hands to the workmanship” and to support the population of what it would come to be the Quarter of the Musgueira North, more did not stop to conquer sympathetically and friends, known people and anonymous, that they have kept of foot an ideal and over all, have become it reality.

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ASBIHP - Association Spina Bífida and Hidrocefalia of Portugal

The ASBIHP - Association Spina Bífida and Hidrocefalia of Portugal is a Particular Institution of Social Solidarity without lucrative ends, established in 1977 to give to support to the people with Spina Bífida and/or Hidrocefalia and its families.

We take the handle some activities that aim at the improvement of the quality of life of the people with Bifid Spina, an increase of its auto-esteem, one better social integration and consequent combat to the isolation.

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The Houses of Gaiato intuition

The Houses of Gaiato intuition was born with the need felt by Padre Américo Monteiro de Aguiar, visitor of the poor and slum dwellers.

The purpose of each House of Gaiato is to receive, educate and integrate into society children and young people who, for whatever reason, were deprived of normal family environment.

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Novo Futuro Association

Who we are

The Novo Futuro Association is a Private Institution of Social Solidarity, recognized as of Superior Social Interest, which was founded in Portugal in 1996.  This Association’s purpose is to welcome and support Children and Young People deprived of a family atmosphere.

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Meninos de Oiro

This Association was established with the aim of protecting the superior rights of the Child, intervening at all levels to fill in the needs that harm the Children the most – protecting them against anything that in some way may put in danger their harmonious and healthy growth (implying by “health” what it’s said in the World Health Organization’s Preface: “State of complete physical, mental and social welfare and not only the lack of illness or disease”).

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CrescerSER

The CrescerSer, Portuguese Association for the Rights of Children and Families (APDMF) is an Institution for Social Solidarity and its main objectives is to undertake interdisciplinary study of issues relating to legal and administrative protection of minors and their families, to promote, encourage and organize community support services to children, young people and the family society, and its nationwide; boost training in the area of child protection and youth at risk, along with technicians who perform their duties or in the Committees for the Protection, both in equipment for this social problem.
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CERCIOEIRAS

Founded in October 1975 by a group of parents and professionals of Rehabilitation who were unsatisfied with the care of their children with deep mental disabilities. It has sought, above all, humanizing this service by including scientific methods and techniques applied by specialized staff contracted for this purpose and in accordance with its economic possibilities.

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António Luís de Oliveira Foundation

The Foundation is a Private Institution of Social Solidarity, which hosts brotherhood (groups of siblings) of both sexes, from 3 to 18 years old, from problematic families and aims to provide assistance, education and training.

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CAF – JUNTA DE FREGUESIA DO LUMIAR

The Centre of Arts and Formation began in 1999 and its a “Open Door” Project to help children and young people to fight against social exclusion and drugs.

Association Resgate

Association Resgate was founded in 1923 by Father John of the Holy Trinity to take care for unprotected children and adolescents living in morally inadequate conditions. The Count of Agrolongo and the Countess of Cuba left the Association, in legacy, land in Lisbon and Porto Salvo on which the Instituto Condessa de Cuba was built in the 1970’s.

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APPDCDM – QUINTA DOS INGLESINHOS

From the efforts of Sheila Stilwell, mother of a child with Down's syndrome and Alice Tavares de Melo, child psychiatry, this Association was born on 2 February 1962 under the name of the Portuguese Association of Parents and Friends of the mongoloid child. With the accession to the International League of Societies for the Mentally Handicapped, was necessary to change the name to the Portuguese Association of Parents and Friends of Children with mental disabilities, now known as the Portuguese Association of Parents and Friends of Mentally Retarded Citizens (APPACDM).

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