Algarve Situation Report Wednesday 1st December 2021
Castro Marim: Around 50 women participated in a Self Defence workshop
Empowering participants with the tools necessary to defend their physical integrity, in order to prevent threatening situations, was the focus of the initiative.
Last Saturday, Castro Marim hosted a Self Defence workshop for women, which brought together fifty participants and marked the International Day of Non-Violence Against Women, celebrated on 25 November.
Aimed at women of all ages, the workshop took place with coach João Pacheco and focused on learning defence, control and dominance techniques.
As part of the Portugal Against Violence campaign (#PortugalContraAViolência), this workshop was organized by the Algarve Self-Defense Association – Sistema Elite DP, with the support of Castro Marim City Council, Leões do Sul Futebol Club, Portuguese Institute of Sport and Youth, Ju-Jitsu Federation and associated disciplines from Portugal and Castro Marim School Group.
Portimão presents the Municipal Volunteer Award and recognizes those who distinguished themselves in this area during the pandemic
On the International Day of Volunteering, which marks the 5th of December, the Municipality of Portimão will pay tribute to a group of associations and people who have distinguished themselves for their community work during a pandemic period, namely in the supply and delivery of meals at home, hampers and medicines and in the making of purchases, among other actions, with the winners of the third edition of the Municipal Volunteering Award being revealed at the time, informed the Municipality in a note issued.
Scheduled for 3:00 pm in the auditorium of the Museum of Portimão, this tribute will feature a moment dedicated to sharing testimonies in the first person, as will be the cases of João Lagartinho (Corpo Nacional de Escutas – Portimão Grouping), Manuela Santos (Cáritas Paroquial de Nª Srª da Conceição – Matriz de Portimão) and Sara Bruins (individual volunteer), who will talk about their experiences.
The entities Caritas Parochial Nossa Senhora da Conceição – Matrix of Portimão, ADRA – Adventist Association for Development, Resources and Assistance, ACRA 1st December, Associação Flor Amiga, GRATO – Support Group for Drug Addicts, MAPS – Movement and Support to Problemática da AIDS, Association for Family Planning – Projeto Rio, National Scout Corps – Grouping No. 159 – Portimão and National Scout Corps Agrupamento de Alvor, as well as personal volunteers from Sara Bruins, Miguel Andrade, Marisa Guerreiro, João Sobral, João Gouveia, Catarina Menezes, Tynara Nascente, José Brito, Aleida Monteiro, Sonia Baiona, Diogo Diniz, Custódia Entradas and Arnaldo Silveira, all of whom offered their services under the recently launched Platform for Volunteering in Portimão by the municipality.
After the break in 2020, when the in-person ceremony was cancelled due to the pandemic, this year the public presentation of candidacies for the Municipal Volunteer Award is resumed and the two maximum distinctions and honourable mention awarded by the jury, corresponding to the edition in which the largest number of projects was received, seven collectively and two individually, for a total of nine.
Food Bank collected 24 tons in Baixo Alentejo
Around 24 tonnes of food products were collected in Baixo Alentejo, as part of yet another Food Bank campaign, last weekend, on the 27th and 28th of November.
Volunteers from the Food Bank Against Hunger of Beja – which works in the intervention area of the Intermunicipal Community of Baixo Alentejo (CIMBAL) – returned in person “to the street”, although with all the care that the health situation imposes.
Despite the pandemic, José Tadeu de Freitas, president of the Beja Food Bank, clarifies that “the same number of products in kilograms” achieved in the last campaign of 2019 was reached.
José Tadeu de Freitas therefore gives a “very positive assessment” of the action that took place on Saturday and Sunday. He emphasizes the “delivery” of the approximately 700 volunteers, stating that without them the campaign would not take place.
Beja was the municipality that managed to collect the most kilos in food products. There were about 10 tons, that is, 400 kilos more than in the 2019 campaign, says José Tadeu de Freitas.
The official also refers that the food products will now be distributed, over the next few months, to the Food Bank’s partner institutions.
Pre-trial detention for drug trafficking suspect detained in Tavira
The GNR investigation had been going on for about six months.
On Monday, November 22, the GNR’s Criminal Investigation Centre (NIC) arrested a 30-year-old man for drug trafficking, in Cabanas de Tavira.
The GNR, as part of an investigation that had been going on for about six months, carried out several police steps that culminated in the execution of two search warrants, one at home and one in a vehicle, and in the arrest of the suspect, who was in possession of about ten doses of cocaine.
The individual, according to the GNR, was preparing “to sell the narcotic product to consumers in that locality, in Vila Nova de Cacela and Castro Marim.”
As a result of the searches, it was possible to apprehend several materials related to drug trafficking and a vehicle.
After being present at the Faro Judicial Court on Friday, 26 November, he was given the coercive measure of preventive detention, and was taken to the Prison of Olhão.