Description
The promoter works in support of patients evacuated from Cape Verde, under the Cooperation Agreement between Portugal and this country. This project aims at capacity building of their own field teams, encompassing a special group of volunteer patients which, for their cultural affinity, have the ability to help other evacuated patients, thus strengthening and broadening the promoter’s activities. The project will specifically work on education for health, to be provided to evacuated patients and focusing on the most common pathologies faced by them; field intervention, focusing on improving the training and practices of the field teams; and on citizenship expression, where artistic techniques will be employed for consolidating learning, team building, and raising awareness on the project itself.
Summary of project results
This project, promoted by an immigrants’ association, improved the services provided to Cape Verdean evacuee patients coming to Portugal under a Cooperation Agreement. In order to achieve this, training was provided to 63 people, including the promoter’s staff and, crucially, a group of volunteers which are patients themselves. Through the project, the promoter successfully tested the concept that these “volunteer patients”, having close cultural proximity and shared clinical conditions with the evacuees receiving support, can provide support in a way that other caregivers cannot. For the promoter, the outcome from the training activities exceeded expectations and will contribute to the improvement of the services provided. A focus on documentation, capacity building and cooperation was achieved, which was reflected, namely, in the clarification and compilation of procedures into teaching materials, the “Volunteer Patient Guide”, which will be improved upon in the future.
Summary of bilateral results