YoungVolunTeam gets to ride the Rock In Rio and travels 93 Portuguese schools

Released in November 2012, the YoungVolunTeam is the educational program of the Caixa Geral de Depósitos directed students who attend secondary school. The program has the support of Out of the shell, Entrajuda, the General Directorate of education and the youth in action programme, the European Union, and this year with a special push: Rock In Rio (Laugh).

Thus, the CGD and Rock In Rio asked the students of all secondary schools covered organize an action for funds to support a social cause. This Union of social projects â€" Young VolunTeam and Laugh â€" enabled the first go further in its aim to raise funds for the creation or reinforcement of homerooms in IPSS (charities).

"We intend to equip homerooms, insofar as we believe that education is an essential vehicle to break cycles of poverty, thereby promoting social inclusion. We have the energy and determination of Secondary school students to help give back, "said Francisco Viana, director of communications and branding of the box.

Promoting the culture of volunteering in Portugal has been, moreover, one of the main commitments of action of CGD â€" in this case, with the groupings of secondary schools across the country, strengthening the recognition of the importance of the contribution of these to the development of fundamental skills for young people, in different axes: social inclusion, education, entrepreneurship, employment and citizenship.

This year's Edition, the Young VolunTeam featured the inscription of 93 high schools across the country, with a total of 185 teachers coordinators and 2,400 students ambassadors of the program in their schools and surrounding communities.

This action with the Rock In Rio is paradigmatic of the importance of the project â€" and how far he can go. In it, the groups of students from ten schools with better provision will be invited to continue the action of raising funds in Rock in Rio-Lisbon, where they can also enjoy and watch the concerts and entertainments of the Cidade do Rock.

This initiative will be extended to employees still in the box, which could help in fund raising, as well as the community as a whole, that can contribute directly through a sympathetic account. A real project of social inclusion.

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