Albufeira launches Volunteer Exchange to help with recovery

Albufeira City Council created an Emergency Office to support and provide information to the public and a grant […]

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Group of foreign volunteers, who left their work, to help in Albufeira

Albufeira City Council created an Emergency Office to support and provide information to the public and a volunteer grant to help clean up the establishments and the public road, after the «dramatic situation that took place last Sunday in the municipality».

Interested persons should go to the Emergency Office, located in the lobby of the Paços do Concelho building, or contact the service through the numbers 289 570 722 / 289 570 718, from 9:00 am to 17:00 pm. Outside office hours, the contact number should be Azul: 808 202 274.

As for the volunteer grant, those interested in helping should go to the Albufeira Municipality Service – Balcão 1, also located in the atrium of the Paços do Concelho building, with the respective identification documents. For more information, contact the number 968339214.

It is necessary to present ID and Taxpayer Number for reasons related to mandatory insurance.

The Chamber is organizing a Schedule/Agenda for the following days, in order to facilitate the work of volunteers.

If available today, the Municipal Kennel and SOS Algarve Animals they need your help in cleaning the kennel and as temporary foster families for animals. Please contact SOS Algarve Animals for message on Facebook, to let you know if you can help and how.

However, since yesterday there are hundreds of volunteers working in the streets, who spontaneously help friends or even strangers, as Sul Informação found in your report.

But it was also created, on Facebook, one page, in english and portuguese, which has been coordinating and centralizing information on the help needed.

According to Albufeira SOS, they are “awaiting news from the Chamber regarding a bank account to centralize all donations”.

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