Eliminate barriers

Raise technical aids to enhance the autonomy of the elderly

The mission of the Nossa Senhora das Candeias Assistance Association is to provide assistance and address the needs of the local community in favor of the most unprotected and excluded people, in terms of health, care, family support and education, serving with quality and respect in the area. social intervention acting as a force for social change.

The Institution provides daily support to the Elderly through the social responses Day Center and Home Support Service and with this project aims to provide a set of technical means / aids to people with physical disabilities, aiming to enhance their autonomy and quality of life.

The Association signed up for #GIVINGTUESDAY with the aim of raising all kinds of technical aids, namely: wheelchairs, walkers, canes, crutches, toilets, armchairs, folding beds, which for example you have at home and no longer uses, or the granting of monetary aid for the Association to acquire.

Your donations can be delivered at the Association's headquarters, at: Rua da Cadeia, 77, 5050-426 Canelas- Peso da Régua.

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Mission:

• Provide assistance and address the needs of the local community in favor of the most unprotected and excluded people, in terms of health, care, family support and education.
• Serve quality and respect in Social Intervention by acting as a force for social change.

Association Vision:

• Continuously improve social responses;
• Providing well-being and self-appreciation of the target population.

The values defined in the institution are:

• Solidarity;
• Innovation;
• Team work;
• Effort.