The Good Shepherd Project

Volunteers play an important role in the running of both Projeto Bom Pastor and Projeto Alcançando Vidas. The directors of both projects seek to forge strong links with the communities that they serve and have been successful in enlisting support from a variety of volunteers from the medical and legal professions. Volunteers from the local churches are actively engaged in fundraising, extra curricular activities and community outreach projects.
	The projects welcome volunteers from overseas charitable organisations who come as individuals or in teams for short term missions either to carry out specific tasks such as decorating & building or to support staff in the daily running of the projects' work.

Volunteers placed through GAP International, usually in pairs, spend up to six months at our projects, living locally and fully integrating in the community. They bring a variety of skills and talents which leaders try to incorporate into the programmes including teaching of the English language which is taught to children and adults alike.
	Individual churches also organise extended working holidays, (usually of around a month) for volunteer teams to support project staff. Teams get involved in every aspect of the work. Teachers enjoy having additional support in the classrooms and the children enjoy the extra attention that they receive from their overseas 'uncles' & 'aunties'.

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