Causes

. Archdiocesan Caritas of Braga

Caritas is one of the most well-known Charity Institutions with a presence in over 200 countries worldwide. With a strong connection to the Church, it wishes to answer to the most serious realities of poverty, social exclusion and emergency situations resulting from natural disasters.
The Archdiocesan Caritas of Braga comprises 14 dioceses in the low Minho. Its action involves the supply of foodstuffs (to 1386 families), social bathhouses (42 beneficiaries - 600 baths a year), a social canteen (60 beneficiaries - 45 meals a day), social wardrobes ( 25,000 pieces of clothing), students support (16 PALOPs and Portuguese), psycho-social and educational support (35 attended people) and disease support (85 families covered with medications, trips to IPO, hospital medical equipment, ...) and domestic violence victims (35 cases only in Braga).
We are aware that Caritas is currently one of the charities facing the major difficulties.
Cachapuz has contributed with more than 200kg of donations of goods (clothing for children, men and toys) and foodstuffs at Christmas 2012.

. Mundos de Vida

Mundos de Vida is a social institution based in Lousado, Vila Nova de Famalicão, for the elderly and children. In its solidarity component, Mundos de Vida protects and nurtures children coming from difficult realities receiving them temporarily in two centers: Casa das Andorinhas and Casa do Alto.
In 2006 it created a pioneering service in Portugal, the Specialized Foster Care Service thus becoming the first IPSS framing institution.
Every year the campaign "Hugs Wanted" is carried out in order to find a new generation of foster families, with the motto "the right of every child to grow up in a family", providing to a child to grow up in a loving, secure, family environment.
In August 2013, Cachapuz had the pleasure to provide two days of full joy to 17 of this institution sheltered children, with a bodyboard class at the Guia beach, in Matosinhos, by the surf school Linha de Onda, and offering them beachballs and caps.