Apresentação / Introduction

We are the English students of the Socio Cultural Animation Vocational Course  2010 -2013, in Escola Secundária Alexandre Herculano, Porto.

This blog is intended to be a place to share information and promote the debate of ideas related to Socio Cultural Animation. Here’s our photo!



Socio Cultural Animation Vocational Course - students of English



The mission  of a Socio Cultural Animator is to promote the socio cultural development of groups or a community, as well as to organize, coordinate and develop activities in the area of Animation.

Types of Animator

• Socio Community Animator
• Cultural Animator
• Social Animator
• Tourist Animator
• Social Education Animator

Types of Intervention

• Prevention of deprivation and inequality, socioeconomic and cultural dependency and social exclusion;
• Amendment of the effects of the previous problems;
• Promotion of social integration.

Target groups

• Community: children, adolescents, adults, seniors, disabled people.

Areas of Intervention:

• Social Exclusion
• Dependency
• Delinquency
• Socioeconomic inequality
• Illiteracy
• Difficulty of access to cultural and leisure activities
• Risk groups*

* we work with :

• disabled individuals
• abused children
• drug addicts
• alcoholics
• prisioners
• bedridden individuals
• homeless individuals
• unemployed individuals
• hospitalized individuals