About Us

ASPAYM Castilla y León Youth

ASPAYM Castilla y León Juventud was founded in 2003 with the aim of channeling and promoting the participation of young people with physical disabilities. The organization seeks to promote awareness, social inclusion, and the active participation of young people with disabilities under the age of 30 through inclusive cultural, sporting, educational, and leisure activities. In addition, it addresses the specific needs of this group and works to provide solutions in an efficient and direct manner.

Youth is the stage of life when an individual’s identity is formed and their personality is consolidated, which is why it is important to raise awareness at this stage about the diversity of the world around us. Young people are the future for social transformation, and the organization promotes active citizenship and values that fight for inclusion.

Caritas Portuguesa

Caritas Portuguesa is an institution that is governed by its own statutes, has legal, civil and canonical personality, is headquartered in Lisbon and is recognized as a legal entity governed by public law of a foundational nature under Canon Law and NGOD (Non-Governmental Organization for the Development). CP legal status of public utility as NGO has been recognized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1997. Caritas Portuguesa is a member of Caritas International (world confederation of 162 organizations), Caritas Europa, the National Confederation of Solidarity Institutions, the Portuguese Volunteer Confederation and the Portuguese NGOD Platform and it is represented in Working Group of Ethics.

Rosto Solidário

Rosto Solidário (RS) is a Portuguese NGDO (non-governmental organization for development), established in 2007. The organisation is based in Santa Maria da Feira about 30 km from Oporto. RS aims to foster global citizenship and solidarity by enhancing local communities’ human and social development. RS’s core principles are civic participation, social integration, solidarity, networking and partnership. The organisation’s scope of work includes four main areas: International Development Cooperation, Global Citizenship Education, Volunteering and Family-based Social Support. Gender Equity, Human Rights and Social Inclusion are RS cross-cutting subjects. RS’s legal status as a public utility has been recognized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2008. As a Portuguese NGDO Platform member, it is represented both in the Development Education Working Group and the Working Group on Ethics. RS is a credited host and sending organization for Solidarity European Corps projects since 2011. Since the beginning RS is supported by the Congregation of the Passion of Jesus Christ. It is also a member of the Plataforma das Entidades de Voluntariado Missionário (a national network of Catholic institutions that promote international volunteering programs). At the local level, RS is a member of Rede Social do concelho de Santa Maria da Feira (a local network of 115 organisations with social intervention programmes – following National Action Plan for Inclusion guidelines). Within this network, RS has been awarded four times in recognition of its work in volunteering and supporting local communities’ development.

Regionalne Centrum Wolontariatu

It was established in 1997 as a program of the Foundation in Support of Local Democracy. Since 1999 it has been an independent association. The main aim of our organization is to help people to understand the idea of volunteering, and motivate youth about alternative ways of spending free time and helping others.
The Centre’s focus includes three pillars: Volunteering, Station: Youth, and International Mobilities. Volunteer Work Exchange Office is the Centre’s main activity when it comes to local actions. We promote volunteering and meet and support volunteers. Our volunteers work in non-governmental organizations, cultural organizations, public administration, schools, and kindergartens, during sports and cultural events, and charity actions, as well as give support to the elderly and people with disabilities in their daily life. We also prepare courses and workshops for organizations’ leaders and coordinators to prepare them to engage volunteers in their activities. We work with everyone who wants to become a volunteer.
What is more, we work with international volunteers, hosting currently 20 ESC volunteers. Most of them work in schools, youth centres, and cultural institutions.
Station: Youth is a space for young people to get new skills, and support in their social actions as well as a place where young people can meet and make friends, and develop run mostly by the ESC volunteers. RCW is also a Eurodesk information point.
The Regional Volunteer Centre is the most active organization in Poland when it comes to Erasmus+ and other international programs. Since 2010 we have run dozens of projects for youth, youth workers, adults, and more. We have experience being a regional Youth in Action and Erasmus+ Training Point.
We organize lots of exchanges, training courses, training in countries, structured dialogue projects as well as various strategic partnerships, the Erasmus+ Sport project, and the Capacity Building in the Field of Youth. While implementing such projects we focus on leadership, education through sports, digital skills, and new forms of education as well as on youth policy and human rights.

Caritas Srbije

It is active in Serbia from the beginning of 90s and officially registered as of 1995. Caritas Serbia is acting both as an organization implementing its own national projects, and also as the “roof organization” coordinating the large Caritas network in Serbia – which is spread all over the country through more than 28 local offices opened all over Serbia, from Subotica to Nis. Caritas Serbia employs 14 people, while the whole network employs around 156 persons and has more than 500 active volunteers.
In the spirit of its charitable mission, since 1990s, Caritas Serbia implements activities aimed at providing humanitarian assistance to people in need (refugees from Croatia and Bosnia and Herzegovina, internally displaced persons from Kosovo, victims of natural disasters, refugees and migrants traveling through Serbia since 2015). Thanks to its emergency activities Caritas in Serbia provided support to more than 2,000,000 people since 1990s till today.
At the beginning of the 2000s, however, areas of work was expanded to development programs and projects. Thanks to the work done so far, Caritas Serbia is recognized as an advocate for mental health reform and deinstitutionalization process, as a promoter of social entrepreneurship and as an important player in activities aimed at raising awareness and reducing the risk of natural disasters and increasing employability of youth, vulnerable youth through professional orientation, quality career guidance, life-work experience and entrepreneurship practices. Since 2017, Caritas is active in provision of assistance to returnees that included counselling and assistance in getting personal documents, acquiring access to social and health services, enrolment of children in schools, etc. for people who are returned back to Serbia in the readmission process (mainly from Germany, but also other EU countries).
Through first phase of the 5-years project Caritas Serbia supported so far approx. 2,400 young women and men in the age between 15 and 30 that have increased their employability through info sessions (1500) and career guidance and counselling (1100). Young people have completed short non-formal/fruitful learning labour market programmes, started internships, attended motivational and job-searching trainings, participated in entrepreneurial boot camps, were placed in jobs, enrolled in VET courses and 18 of them created (social) enterprises/start-ups.