About Amigos das Crianças
Amigos das Crianças is a project of the Peta Birch Community Association (Peta – Birch Associação Comunitária), a registered association with NIPC 510742297. This family-run non-profit association was set up in 2012 in memory of Peta Birch. To read more about Peta, the association, and other projects of the association that support horses and Roma families, please visit the website www.petabirch.org.
The Amigos provides support for children at the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Albufeira homes, specifically the Pirilampos (children up to 12 years old) and Gaivota (children from 12-18) homes.
Peta and her husband donated land for what was to become the Pirilampos home for children and started helping the children of the Santa Casa in 1979. The Amigos was more formally set up in 1995. Monies raised by the Amigos have since helped with repairs, improvements, clothing, bedding, dental and optician expenses, higher education opportunities, and trips and outings for both the Pirilampos young children, and Gaivota teenage children.
Currently the Amigos provides:
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March 2014
September 2013
The Amigos provides support for children at the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Albufeira homes, specifically the Pirilampos (children up to 12 years old) and Gaivota (children from 12-18) homes.
Peta and her husband donated land for what was to become the Pirilampos home for children and started helping the children of the Santa Casa in 1979. The Amigos was more formally set up in 1995. Monies raised by the Amigos have since helped with repairs, improvements, clothing, bedding, dental and optician expenses, higher education opportunities, and trips and outings for both the Pirilampos young children, and Gaivota teenage children.
Currently the Amigos provides:
- dental and optical care;
- activities such as sports, day trips, evenings out or summer camps;
- higher education support;
- clothes and shoes;
- essential supplies;
- other items as requested.
Read more about the Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Albufeira.
Sign up to our electronic mailing list to receive news, updates and current appeals.
Newsletter past editions
January 2017
March 2016
November 2014
March 2014
September 2013
