Portuguese Participants

Hello!!
My name is Ana Catarina Esteves and I’m 22 years old.
In my freetime I like to go out with my friends, listening music, go to the cinema, go to the beach…
I’m in the 4th year of Sociocultural Animation and in the future I would like to work with childrens with social problems.I think the Intensive Program will be a great experience to understand other realities about social work and to meet new people and cultures.

Hi!
My name is Dulce Dias, I’m 22 years old and I live in Portugal in a place call Minde.
I’m in the 4th year of Sociocultural Animation.
When I think in what I like to do, I find many things, as walk in the rain, travel, listening music, see a great movie and eat popcorns. I wish that these two weeks would be the best, for me and for all of you.

Hi!
My name is Cláudia and I´m 23 years old.
I was born in 13/01/1984 in the island of S.Miguel, Azores. I love living there because it´s very beautiful, almost everthing green, with flowers, lots of touristic places to visit and I love the smell of the sea.
I´m in the 4th year of Social Education and when I finish the course I want to work in Azores, preferentially with children/young people.
Relatively to my person I´m friend of my friends, sympathetic, a little bit shy at first.
My motivation to participate in IP was to practise my English (that is a bit rusty), to meet new people and cultures and learn new methods of work and techniques of formal education and no formal. This experience will be a challenge to my self and that would help me in my future as Social Educator.

Name: Carlos Colaço

Age: 22

Freetime and Hobbies: Theatre, listening to music, going out, making fun, travelling…Favorite Food: Pasta’s

I’m a very well humoured person that likes to laugh a lot, and to enjoy all the good moments of life! I love cultural animation and everything about it. I also like theatre, it is something that amuses me.

Name: Sandra Andrade
Age: 25 years old (19-01-1982)
Location: I am a portuguese girl and I studie here at Santarém but i´m from an island called Madeira:

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Hobbies: listening to music, reading, cinema, being with my friends, volunteering with aged people.
Things I hate: Racism, lies and falseness.
Things I love: laughting, swiming at the beach, make my friends happy, helpping others and see their smile. Love to meet people from others places althought I do not do that often.
My msn:

sandradandrade@hotmail.com :P
My dreams: to change the world. :P I would like to change peoples lifes. One of my dreams is social work at some country at África. I would love to go there, althought it is a sad reality It would make me very happy if I could do something for them.
My reality: When I finish my studies I would like to work with aged people but I´m oppened to other áreas. I believe this IP is already oppening my eyes for social work with young people.I believe this IP is a great change for me to met new social workers friends and that will be a very rich experience! Hope to see you soon!

Hello
My name is Tânia.
I’m twenty one years old.
I’m a 4th year Social Education student.
I’m Portuguese.My main motivation is about the scope and the panoply of themes that will be approached in the Intensive Program. In my opinion, this program looks into very interesting themes and the participants will have a lot to donate to the program: a multitude of experiences, participation in others seminars and interchange whit other cultures. I think this experience is very rewarding for all of us. I am nervous but expectant and happy for this opportunity!

Hello Everybody!
I’m Filipa and I’ve 22 years old. I’m from Lisbon but I’m living in Salvaterra de Magos.
I’m very excited with the IP, and I think that it will be a great experience for me and for all of us. What can I say about me? Well…I think that I’m a nice person, friend of my friends, I like very much to eat and I’ve always a book to read before I go to bed.
I’m studying to be a Social Educator and another thing that I would like to share whit you is that at this moment of my life I’m a volunteer firewomen in the Humanity Association of Volunteer Fireman of Salvaterra de Magos. It does have been a good experience on personal level; helping people at the same time that I’m practise an active citizenship witch makes me fell realised at this camp.
And I also fell that the values, the principles of been a volunteer firewomen are approach to the principles of Social Education on the perspective of helping the others.

Hi. My name is Tiago Carmona and I’m 21 years old. I am studding Social Education in Santarém, Portugal.
During course I had opportunity to practice in two places: Childhood and youth helping house and a Primary school. In the first case, me and more three mates did an observation practice, when we reflected about some questions inherent to the subject of institutionalized children and young people. At the Primary school we programmed some sessions of animation where we tried to develop some psychosocial competencies in children.
As hobbie I like playing some sports (football, run, swim), make some thinks of graphic design, playing guitar and collaborating an organization of students association.
I wish that this formation will be share and construction place. Maybe, my main challenge will be communicate in English… but also I shall use other communications forms, like gesticulation… See you soon.

Belgium Students

Name:Lieselotte Maene
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Freetime and hobbies: Going out, listening to music,...
Favorite food: Scampis and french frites
Course: Social work
Something about my training period…:
I’ve done my training period at JAC (young people recommendation centre). This centre organises shaping services for children and young people.
My task in the centre is to start up these services and to accompany it.
Something about my project…:
Joke and I worked together with the service JAC during the project. This is the service where Christophe is doing his training period. It was our task to develop a method which makes sure that this centre is known to the students from the first degree.

Joke Devriese
Age: 24 years
Gender: female
Freetime and hobbies: fitness, running, snowboarding
Favorite food: macaroni with cheese and ham
Course: social worker
Something about my training period…: I’ ve done my training period in a young peolple advice centrum (JAC) in Izegem. This is a centrum where young people can come to ask for information, advise. It is also possible to help young people for a longer time. The centrum does olso preventive work. They go to schools, center for young people,... to give courses abouts manny subjects.
Something about my project…: I’ve done my project in the JAC / Passe-Partout from Oostende. It’s a same kind of organisation as the one i’ve done my training period in. The difference is that this organisation have a own building. The organisation from my training period is in the same building as the department that aims to adults. The organisation in oostende is this year merged with the educationcenter Passe-Partout. Now they are even more specialised in giving courses. In my project we have the task to make Jac / Passe-Partout well-known by the young people.

Name: Sammy Kolijn
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Freetime and hobbies: Eating bananas, learning electric guitar, playing American Pool (billiard), listening to all kinds of music, watching football
Favourite food: Pasta, rice, grape fruit. Did I mention bananas?

Course: Social work
Something about my training period…: My training period is situated at ‘t Zonnetje (translated: ‘The Little Sun’), a youth work organisation that organises activities for children, teenagers and adults with (and without) disabilities.
Something about my project…: My project was situated in a neighbourhood in Ostend called “De Nieuwe Stad”. (Translation: The New City). With our project we tried to give an impulse to the neighbourhood. We organised a Talent Festival to bring people – Belgian people as well as people with other nationalities – together and to show that we all have (hidden) qualities. Young people, old people, Belgian, English, Russian, Chinese, African, etc… people participated in the project. Nine students from our school organised this festival together with two organisations and people from the neighbourhood. We show the treasure of qualities present in the neighbourhood.

Name: Kenny Kolijn
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Freetime and hobbies: playing american pool (for fun), playing soccer (for fun, no competition anymore), the Internet, listening to music (Guns N’ Roses, AC/DC, KISS, ZZ Top, The Rolling Stones, Van Halen, etc). I sometimes play badminton for fun (once in a while). Currently starting to lear to play guitar (electric). Making websites and doing graphic design.

Favorite food: pasta & "french" fries
Course: Social Work
Something about my training period…:
Working on the ‘livability’ of one of the neighbourhoods in Bruges.
Something about my project…: Together with 7 other students I tried bringing people of different cultures together, in the neighbourhood called “Nieuwe Stad” (translation: New City), a problem area/disctrict in Ostend.

Name: Denis Houdart
Age: 21
Gender: male
Freetime and hobbies: I like to: play the drums, skate, longboard (downhill), surf, go out whit my friends, travel, … There’s not much free time left!
Favorite food: French frites whit steak, fishticks, spare ribs,…

Course: Social work
Something about my training period…: My training period implied working in a youth- house. There I work whit a group of volunteers who are the engine of the house. The social worker helps the This youth- house offers the opportunity for young people to express themselves in a safe environment. It also offers a place to meet new people and make new friends. Beside these topics, the youth- house also offers assistance.
Something about my project…: My project also implied working whit young people. In Ostend there is district called “De Nieuwe Stad” translated “The New Town”. In this district a service called ‘Arktos’ works whit young people. My project implied breaking the representation and preconceptions between young and old in the district whit photo material.

Name:Thomas Casselman
Age: 23
Gender: Male
Freetime and hobbies: I’m active in a youth house. I spend most of my time there. Otherwise I love going out, making fun, travelling, … I also play mini-football.
Favorite food: Steak with pepper ows and some good Belgian fries.
Course: Social Work
Something about my training period…:
I fulfil my training period in a service for common good and youth. My main task is to coach youngsters into the daily action of the youth house. This is a place, chosen by youngsters, where they can participate to meaningful leisure activities. The youth house especially focuses attention on non-organized youth.
Something about my project…:
My project was to work on the quality of life in a neighbourhood in Ostend. A lot of occupants have a wrong idea concerning the exact number of immigrants in the district. This brings tensions with itself. Our purpose was to change this train of thought and to stimulate the consistency between the occupants.


Name: Pepijn Vyvey
Age: 21
Gender: Male
Freetime and hobbies: leader in the ‘Scouts’ (youth-movement), playing football, going out, skate – and snowboarding
Favorite food: Fish with mashed potatoes,…
Course: Social Work
Something about my training period…:
My training period is in ‘Vredeseilanden’. This is an independent, pluralistic non-governmental organisation that works in 15 different country’s all over the world about development cooperation, specialized in food security. I give shaping about this themes in Belgian schools and I help with fundraising projects in Belgium.
Something about my project…:
My project implied that we organized something with/for youth to learn them about the millennium goals and how 11.11.11.(portal of the Coalition of the Flemish North South Movement in Belgium) works. We organized a ‘Millennium goals contest game’ between youth movements in Ostend. There were also music bands, a lecture about the goals and a distribution of prizes for the winners of the game.

Name: Christophe Vanderfaeillie
Age: 22
Gender: Male
Freetime and hobbies: Playing football, going out
Favorite food: French frites and steak
Course: Social work
Something about my training period…:
My training period is in the JAC (young people recommendation centre), there I give shaping on sexuality and relations to all types target groups. It is the intention to people imparting insight on this topic
Something about my project…:
My project implied that we organised something to promote foreign speakers and immigrants the integration of. We have organised for this a multicultural festival

Name: Christiana Gerasimova
Age: 24
Gender: Female
Freetime and hobbies: tennis
Favorite food: Pasta’s
Course: Social work
Something about my training period…:
During my training period I organized activities for young people between 12 and 25 years oud. The perpose of the activities we organised was to bring some education into the free time they have after school. Most of the kids don’t attend the lessons or don’t speek the language. We try to give them some ready knowledge. Knowing that this is their free time, our activities must be entertaining en fun to participate in. They can bring in their thoughts or wants. We try to create enough space to grow and find themselfs. There for we work somethimes with outher youth organisations so that we can improve our offer.
Something about my project…:
During our project, we tried to reduce the distance between young people and art. So we organized workshops with different subjects during an exposition of young artists. Through the workshops, we asked for their opinions and tried to explain the view of the artist. Especially the contribution of the kids was of interest. In the second part of the workshop we made our own exposition. This way the kids could feel that art is not something far far away from them. They can do it themselves.

Name: Cedric Lessire
Age: 23
Gender: male
Freetime and hobbies: I like sports especially capoeira, the beach, travelling and spending time with friends
Favourite food: really hard to choose but I guess I spicy food like Mexican is amongst the favourites.
Course: Social work
Something about my training period…: My training period involved working in a community centre. The centre gives people in the area the chance to meet each other and participate to several activities that the centre organizes. Besides that, the community centre allows people to come eat and have a drink at a low price.
Something about my project…: My project involved the organisation of a play for and together with people wit a handicap. Our actors were between the age of 17 and 70. The project was planned by “ ‘t Zonnetje”. This organisation makes sure youth and people who need special attention get some quality time by organizing activities like daytrips and workshops.

Our Teachers

Name: Bram Van Renterghem
Age: 25
Work@Howest: teacher in sociology and statistics. Internationalisation-coordinator
Previous experience: International seminar in Ostend. Works part-time around new educational innovations (PBL, PL) in methodological subjects.

Name: Jo Bertels
Age: 45
Work @ Howest: internship-coach, project-developer and -coach. Internationalisation (f.e. study trip, Erasmus, Ip, etc…Previous experience: Jo still works part-time at ‘in petto’: an organisation which provides young people in information of all kinds. International seminar in Ostend.

Name: Vanessa Vanhooren
Gender: female
Age: 29
Work @ Howest: internship-coach, project-coach. Trainer in social and creative skillsPrevious experience: worked for 4 years in a Belgian youth service and participated in community service, as well as in a similar international seminar in Ostend about youth work and informal learining

Sandrine is 33 years old. She is currently living in Rennes in Brittany. She is a (very recent) mother of a little boy called Yael. She is in favour of the mixing of cultures and that’s why, maybe, she is practising Breton and African dancing.

Professionally speaking, she is teaching social economics at the Technical Institute (IUT) of Rennes, in the department of Social Work (more precisely of Social and Cultural animation).

In term of international experiences, she has done a lot research on discrimination in South Africa where she has spent one year in 2001. She has also spent 2 months in Australia at the University of Canberra 3 years ago. At last, when she was young (well… younger!), she has also done internships in West Africa, in Mali and Benin.

Hello, I’m Christelle Maisonneuve, the second French teacher. How can I describe me?
I’m 35 years old,
I have a son (2 years old),
I don’t speak very well English (you will see!!!)
I like world music (especially flamenco, fado), dance, street animations and circus (but without animals!).A teacher of what? Social psychology. My topics of research are linked with intercultural thematic because I work on immigration: the way immigrants are perceived by host community, the way they perceived their own integration,.... I’m also interested by the question of integration of gypsies in France. So, I’m interested by questions of discriminations, stereotypes, identity, conflicts ...

Our Trainers

I am Pieter – Jan Uyttersprot or more shortly, P.J..

I am a Belgian Youth worker / trainer living in France since a few years, in Bretagne and more specifically in Plélan le Grand.My main job consists in giving training (mostly on European level) to youth workers, social workers, animators, educators on topics like Intercultural learning, Non formal education human rights education, animation, active youth participation and different topics, related to the previous ones.

I represent in this IP the Belgian association “Oelalaa”, a small association based in Halle that works most of the time on intercultural projects, during this IP we will work more specifically on the part of Non Formal Education.

I am also actively engaged in the French association Ratatouille and I am a bureau member of ENOA (European network of Animation).My interests/hobbies: I play music (trumpet, clarinet, tuba, guitar, ...) I like to travel, I like to drink a beer with friends, to enjoy life in general.

See you soon

Dennis!

Dennis is 36 years old. He works for a social organization: Luciole and his main missions are:

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  Advices of social actors in youth field (non-profit organisations, municipalities, non formal group of young people, and schools of youth workers).


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  Project coordinator (children and youth work, local development, contribution of young people in the local social life)


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  Training designer and trainer (in the different topics down)

Mostly he is promoting through those missions:

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  Local and social community development


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  Active participation of young people from local to international dimension


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  Intercultural learningProject methodology from local to European dimension

luciole.ara@mageos.com

Anita!

28 years young, Portuguese, currently living in Lisbon.

After obtaining a degree in Social Cultural Animation, Anita has worked in several institutions such as: emergency houses for youngsters, primary prevention, neighbourhood street work, adult training, etc

In 1998, she co-founded MAIS, an informal group of Youthworkers that combines national and international projects and professional services on animation.

Has been a freelance trainer since 2000 for several institutions and organisations such as the European Network of Animation, the European Union and several national Organisations. Also develops work as clown and Face Painter.

empada_com_mayo@hotmail.com

Programme Update

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French Group Presentation

Name: Emilie
Age: 21

Birthday: 17/07/1985
Gender: female
Hobbies: fun with my friends, Travels, Music
Meals: I don’t have favourite meals.
Things what loves: music, sleeping, simplicity and people who are militant
Things what hates: racism, discrimination…
This year, I’m doing an internship in the association “jeunesse et développement”. I help a group of teenager to take actions to go in Senegal for intercultural exchange, in an aim of international solidarity.

Name: Rachel BILLET
Age: 18 years old
Gender: Female
I like : art : visiting museum contemporary art, dancing (not in disco) contemporary dance, and improvising, dance with a very nice boy , Lindy hop, rock’n’roll, ballroom dance (cha-cha, rumba, salsa, passo double, tango,...), answer “dans ton cul” when someone ask Where ! (Dans ton cul = in your bottom), looking someone painting (and not painting because I’m useless).
I like to eat cheese … because I come from Jura, east of France, next Switzerland.
It’s a region called “cheese country”, we find comté (kind of gruyère cheese), cancoillotte, raclette (melted cheese served with boiled potatoes and cold meats) with white wine, yellow wine, absinth…
I don’t like hear tic tac of clocks when I try to sleep, eat fish, when it’s raining…
Hobbies: Nothing … because works, works, works and words. Before coming in IUT, I dance hip-hop, play violin, ski, go to mountain-biking and often see my friends.
internship:
We have to do a two months internship about cultural activities. With two friends, we have chosen to go to Cambodia. We go to an orphanage. Some children have parents but they haven’t got enough money to keep them at home. Children go to the school and they work in touristic hotels. They dance traditional Khmer dance to earn money.
We would like to practise expression corporeal and cultural activities with children. We wait to be in Cambodia for deciding what we will exactly do.
In France, we work with an association (Association Khmer d’Ille et Vilaine). The association gather people of Cambodian origin. We organize two cultural events: one video screening with a discussion about the genocide by “Khmers rouge” and one presentation of the Khmer cultural.
Moreover, we work with Rennes for writing “récits de vie” (stories of life). We meet people of other origin and we ask them about their life. After we write this and it’s published for the school of Rennes.

Name: Maud Vanec
Age: 21 years old
Free time: travel in the past because I practice medieval fencing and I like history and costume. I have a big sword so don’t irritate me!!!
Favourite meal: spicy food
I will do my internship in Cambodia to work with underprivileged children who live in the street, or work in the dump…I want to do activities about health and hygiene education because in the organisation nothing is being done on this topic and it’s a real need. I want to talk about violence, food, drugs, alcohol and prostitution because those topics are really worrying in this country. My objective is to work more particularly with the teachers so they can continue my project when I come back to France. The difficulty in this action is to adapt the content to Cambodian culture

Hello Everybody!
I’m Elodie CLERICE and I’m 21.
It seems that I look like a French actress who is called Vanessa Paradis (she is Johnny Deep’s wife).
I have always live in Britain, in the northwest of France, a lovely country.
My favourite food is the couscous which makes my boyfriend’s mother. When you eat that, you cannot live any more without!
I like sport and I do kick boxing during 5 years. I had play football, gymnastic and tennis too. Now, I run every Sunday morning with my mother and my sister. Yes, I’m really a sports girl!
I like a lot of sort of music, I like cinema and party with my entire friend.
I’m very happy to be in the project in Santarem. It could be rich for my practice.
In May, I go to Congo with 2 friends to do a link and an exchange by Internet between teenagers in Rennes and teenagers in Brazzaville about theatre and Congolese’s literature.

My name is Maud, I’m twenty one years old and I’m a girl.
I don’t have a real hobby, I like to eat good things, travel, have party and walk on coast paths.
I really like shrimps and grilled meat.
During my internship we will try to give attractivity to the library of the “space meet youth” of the city of BoBo Dioulasso in BURKINA FASO. In a first time we want to install some animation around the reading, the expression and the book with the users. Next, it could be interesting to organize meeting with writers from Burkina Faso, user and habitant. Finally we will buy some book to feed the library

My name is Wesley. I’m 21 years old. I’m the only boy to come in this meeting in Santarem (of the France).
First, I’m not very tall and I’ve got long hair. I think that I’m funny because I like laughing; I think it’s important to have fun. I like have to party and meet people. During my free time, I play ping pong, badminton, guitar and I make theatre. I like also listening music and watching TV, but I really like doing nothing, it means keep time to be cool without worries.
I’m member of an association who organise activity for young people (11-25 years old) and who follow young people in their project.
I’m enjoying participating at this meeting, because after my formation, I would like to work at International level. The only thing that afraid me is my English because I’m not easy with this language.
At the beginning, my internship was in Morocco but after few problems, it’s not possible. So now, I’m looking for another practice in France. I’m quite sad but it’s the strong reality of life.

Hi! My name is Amélie and I’m 20 years old. I love playing theatre, eating pizza and watching Marilyn Monroe’s films.
My internship will be in Burkina Faso. With another student we want to realize a cultural exchange between French pupils ands African children.
The associations who support the project are OSI (Orphan aids International) in France and AJPO (an association created by young African to take care of orphan whose parents died because of the AIDS and campaign against aids) in Burkina Faso. We want to realize the cultural exchange by using photos. The children will make sort of photo album for their correspondent to present their culture, their friends, what they like or dislike...
I’m very happy to come in Santarem because I enjoy to travel and to discover other cultures. I hope Portuguese’s food is good because I love eating! Oh, I forgot something really important: my favourite colour is pink! Well, I think now you know a lot of things about me... So see you in February.

Hello, I’m Mathilde. I’m 22.
As the others, I’m student. This year, we prepare an internship abroad and I wish to talk to you about! I will leave in South Africa (So if my English is too bad, please, don’t talk about it!).
There, I will work with an association (Her name is sinethemba Trust) who welcome orphans children and teenagers. To start with, I organize an exchange between them and French children and teenagers. Then a French sponsor send money for school to children (because in South Africa it’s private school) and others spending. So, my involvement is to grow relationship between them and South African children by different mains as a blog!
So, since I’m not a special human and when I am not occupied by this project, I like to spend time with my friends especially doing rock music with my band ( I’m the singer) . And on the same direction I organise with my association a music festival in September.
When the summer is here, I like to go in music festival and theatre festival too. But, my prefer activity in the summer is the « farniente» (doing nothing)!! ! Do we know Jean de La Fontaine? So, I would prefer to be a cicada but for the moment I’m an ant!

Name: Marie
Nickname: MaRy
Age: 22
Birthday: 07/02/1985
Gender: female

My MSN... if someone wants to speak with me before the meeting in Portugal: themary44_moi@hotmail.com.

I like: theatre, music, football, Internet, going to parties or concerts with my friends, travelling with my friends (I’ve been in Sweden and Barcelona with them), being alone from time to time but I like also meeting new people and full other things…

Other: I like also singing under the shower, telling some jokes, eating candy, saving rabbits, speaking with me in a mirror, making concert with my pots and pans…
I don’t like: green vegetables, waking up early, my dog when he’s dribbling…

Internship: in May of this year, I’ll go to Spain in order to make a project about the mix cultures between Tortosa (a town next to Barcelona) and Amanlis (a town next to Rennes). I’ll have to compare urban & rural, Spanish & French and immigrants & no-immigrants. This work will be based around photography.

After the University: I just want to travel all over Europe for the moment... maybe a day I’ll want to stop and stay in a country, but which one?

Name: Mélanie
Age: 20
Birthday: 11/02/1986
Gender: female

I like: fun with my friends, acting, travels, meals: tartiflette and raclette (traditional meals of French’s mountains), ice creams with whipped cream.
Other: laugh, sleeping, the simplicity, my car (a 4L), sweets
I don’t like: racism, nastiness, leeks, cucumbers

My professional project: I would like to work with teenagers or children who are social and familial difficulties. And, I would like to use intercultural dimension.

How to arrive to Santarem

Lisbon Airport

BUS nr. 44 – MOSCAVIDE – 1,30€

From Lisbon airport, catch a bus heading for the Oriente Station in Lisbon. The bus number is nr. 44 (in the direction of Moscavide), duration: about 7 minutes, fare: 1.30 €. The bus stop is just opposite the airport, when you leave it through international arrivals

Oriente Station

TRAIN
At Oriente Station, catch a train heading for Santarem station:
TRAIN (type)
Regional, About 55 minutes, 4.90€
Intercity, About 45 minutes, 9.00€
Alfa, About 38 minutes, 12,50€

At Oriente Station, the ticket office is on the first floor, next to the escalator leading to platform 1. Trains heading for Santarem usually leave from platform 1 on the second floor. There are several trains daily (minimum one every hour). But you can also check on the following web site www.cp.pt in order to find the timetables (departure station is Lisboa – Oriente and arrival station is Santarem)


Santarém Station

At Santarem station, you will be met by Portuguese colleagues. They will be identified and will lead you to l’Estação Zootécnica de Santarém.
In order to welcome you better, we would like to know which train you expect to catch. We would also like you to give us a call or to send a sms as soon as you have bought your tickets at Oriente Station in Lisbon.

Have a nice travel!!!!!