Ser Sénior Ser Mais (Being Senior Being More), getting older happier and more active!

If all of us get older , why not do it with movement and joy? The Senior Mais project wants to ensure that this happens with a wide range of free activities.

The Project Ser Sénior Ser Mais (Being Senior Being More) is a wide range of activities, tending to be free, that bring color, movement and joy to people's lives, especially the senior population. The main objective is to promote an active and healthy aging within the population, maximize autonomy and functional capacity of the participants and foster interpersonal relationships. The project has been successful from the beginning, but we want to do even more and better, and reach more people!

To qualify for the Senior Mais one should simply be over 55 years, ask for the Senior Mais member card at CCCD and ... participate in the scheduled activities!  

The project runs from October 2014, after being one of 27 awarded by Banco BPI, among 580 applications nationwide. And not everything that is good has to come to an end, we want to continue to grow the project and reach as many people as possible. The support of BPI allowed to start and to run the project for about 18 months and having been exhausted the initial support, we now need funding to continue the project that has already reached more than 400 people in an extensive community of about 8000 senior residents of Carnaxide and Queijas.

We want to continue to offer, free of charge, group classes in our facilities, outdoor activities involving relationship with nature and cultural tourism activities. We seek to reach the most fragile senior citizens to improve their quality of life and we want to organize group activities in partnership with private social welfare institutions.

So we can achieve what we aspire we need the help of all participants but also the general public, hoping to recognize the value of what we have been doing. Come on!

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About the author

Vitor Pataco currently directs the Center for High Performance of Jamor and is Lecturer at the Autonomous University of Lisbon. He spends part of his time to the Carnaxide Club in which he is engaged in benevolent regime, the development of sports and cultural activities. He was the main driver of the Project Ser Sénior Ser Mais.

Marco Gonçalves is a Professor of Martial Arts, including Tai Chi Chuan and, since 2011, coordinator and technical director of Carnaxide Culture and Sport Club. He feels that the project  can help unite the senior population of Oeiras.

Ana Lobo is dance teacher and Artistic Director of Carnaxide Culture and Sport Club. Lend some of their time to the development and organization of activities for the project Ser Sénior Ser Mais.

Afonso Gouveia's personal trainer, group classes instructor and deputy coordinator of the CCCD. He believes that life is made of moments and the Senior Mais provides moments that can bring that moments.

Paula Fonseca is responsible for the Secretariat of the CCCD. In addition to being a dedicated professional at the Club, she often gets involved,  on a voluntary basis, in social projects developed by the Club.

Budget and due dates

• Free activities at the Club , IPSS and other places: 1300
• Transport and accommodation: 420
• Material for activities: 200
• Rental facilities: 250
• Rewards: 400
• Communication and dissemination of project: 200
• Platform commission ( 5 % + 23% VAT ): 184.5

Total: 3000

The project is already underway , so the goal is to reach this year 700 seniors Carnaxide and other parishes of the Municipality of Oeiras . Apart from the regular group lessons , the last activity carried out ( the date of which is written here ) was a cultural visit to the Águas Livres Aqueduct accompanied by a walk. The activity was attended by about 40 participants.

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