ProAtlântico is a nonprofit youth association, founded in 2001, in Oeiras, and it carries out projects with children, youngsters and disabled people.
ProAtlântico started to develop activities in a local level like sports tournaments, National and
International exchanges, Summer Camps, Youth Centre, entertaining and cultural activities,
animation of school breaks and as educational support after school for children and young people.
Soon, came the challenge to work with seniors and with people with disabilities in Summer Camps, New Year’s Eve, cultural trips and weekend leisure time activities. In 2003, ProAtlântico started to work with Youth Programme and since then offered the chance to
hundreds of young people to take part in several youth exchanges, training courses and seminars around Europe and soonafter became a coordinator of youth exchanges in Portugal.
Today, ProAtlântico has more than 12.000 members all over Portugal and gives special attention to needed people and to those with fewer opportunities, aiming to give them the chance to establish contact with other cultures, in order to help them to find ways to deal with their own problems and to break the existing prejudices.
The organization’s work is also supported by hundreds of volunteers in local and international
projects and also by former EVS volunteers who assist ProAtlântico team under the Erasmus + program.
Our team participates each year in different trainings in Portugal and abroad in order to develop a better work every day. www.proatlantico.com