4 / INTRO / SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY
TH CLOTHES & AMI
PARTNERSHIP
AMI was founded in 1984, with Mankind as its main focus. Since 1987,
it has intervened in 79 countries, having sent hundreds of volunteers
and tonnes of aid (medicines and medical equipment, food, clothes,
vehicles, generators, etc.). In the international arena, AMI carries out
three large kinds of interventions: Emergency Missions, Development
Missions with expatriate teams and International Projects in
Partnership with Local Organizations, aiming to adjust its operation
to the characteristics and needs of the context, and with that in mind,
assuming a phased intervention. The ultimate goal is always the
sustainability of the development process.
From 1994 onward, aware of the situation in Portugal, AMI has widened
its reach, aiming to minimize the effects of poverty and social exclusion
within national territory. Thus, it currently has 16 Social Equipments
and Responses throughout the country, namely 9 Porta Amiga Centres
(Lisbon – Olaias and Chelas, Porto, Almada, Cascais, Funchal, Coimbra,
Vila Nova de Gaia and Angra do Heroísmo); 2 Night Shelters (Lisboa
e Porto); 2 Street Teams (Lisbon and Vila Nova de Gaia/Porto); 1
Domiciliary Care Service (Lisbon) and 2 FEAD – Fund for European Aid
to the Most Deprived (food reception hubs - Lisbon and Porto). A third
dimension of AMI´s ongoing work is promoting an active citizenship in
the fields of associativism, training or the environment, fostering the
active participation of young people and adults in real world projects.
TH Clothes reverses part of the ANKARA T-shirts sales in favour
of AMI. In 2016/2017, the contributions revert especially for the
project “Um sonho das galinhas - Construction of a Primary School
in Ametite”, which involves the construction of a school that will
house 175 children in Bolama Bijagos, Guinea Bissau