In 2020, we promoted four volunteer initiatives at Associação Padre Amadeu Pinto, where employees helped put together food baskets to be donated to more than 100 socially and economically vulnerable families and helped transform a storage room at the Youth Centre into a new study area for children and young people.
For several years, our employees have participated in the programmes of the Junior Achievement Portugal Association, which aims at fostering entrepreneurship among children and adolescents by teaching subjects such as family and community relations, economics, the European Union and entrepreneurship. The Group’s collaboration with the association dates back to 2005 and has already involved 589 volunteers who offered a total of 5,041 training hours.
The partnership with Associação Girl Move, in place since 2016, aims at training and empowering Mozambican girls and women so that they can become agents for social, economic and political development in their communities, fighting and reversing cycles of poverty through education. During the month they spend in the Group, each “Girl Mover” is assigned a mentor, so that each young woman is given the right tools to return to Mozambique with a different vision of the future and more prepared to contribute with the knowledge acquired for the development of their country.