GASTagus is a non-profit youth NGO that promotes the active citizenship of young people through national and international volunteering.
GASTagus is a non-profit, non-governmental development organization founded in 2008 with the aim of empowering and sensitizing young people to active citizenship, the importance of human dignity and the social inequalities that exist in the world through promotion of national and international volunteering. GASTagus does not develop its own projects, but always in partnership with a local partner (association, parish or NGO) that welcomes our volunteers and sets priorities for the work to be done.
At this moment, GASTagus partners are located in Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Mozambique and Sao Tome and Principe.
The objective of our mission is that during the month of August the volunteers can intervene in order to complement the work already developed by the partner throughout the year. Complementing how? With all the experience acquired by the volunteer throughout the process of training and fundraising. This is a process that encourages, in addition to teamwork with the other volunteers, to have a greater social awareness.
As a non-profit organization and not willing to create any kind of burden for our partners and volunteers, the objective of this campaign is to raise the funds needed to finance the travel and stay of a volunteer on an international mission, in order to continue our projects in any of the destinations where Gastagus operates (Angola, Brazil, Cape Verde, Mozambique and Sao Tome and Principe).
About the author
Founded in 2008, the Tagus Social Action Group (GASTagus) is a non-profit youth development NGO that develops projects in the area of education and development cooperation, while also promoting active citizenship in Portuguese youth through local and international volunteering.
At this moment and after a great growth is divided in several poles in the area of the great Lisbon being: Instituto Superior Técnico, Taguspark; Instituto Superior de Economia e Gestão; Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia; Instituto Superior de Psicologia Aplicada; Faculdade de Psicologia e Instituto de Educação - Universidade de Lisboa.
Each polo has its group and we are Group B and we are located in the Faculdade de Psicologia e Instituto de Educação - Universidade de Lisboa.
The period prior to the mission is called the Walk and is primarily intended for volunteers to arrive in the most prepared way possible to the partners. This preparation takes place in the form of weekly trainings in which various topics are approached, in the form of team building moments in which the volunteers 'abilities as a team are tested and by way of local volunteering in an institution of the volunteers' choice.
Budget and due dates
With this campaign, as already mentioned above we intend to raise the necessary funds for the trip of a volunteer. Travel that in total costs € 1100. The funds raised are exclusively to cover the travel and stay of the volunteers, so as not to create burdens for the partners.
791 € → plane trip
18 € → insurance
172 € → expenses associated with the stay, transport and food
63 € → travel bureaucracies
35 € → health expenses (vaccinations)
€ 15 → infrastructure costs (human resources, etc.)
PPL Commissions: 116.23 €
Rewards costs: Materials + Shipping costs = 130 € approximately.
