1 BEDROOM 1 YEAR 1 FAMILY

ACREDITAR
To
Change Mind – Global Aid

Coimbra, 26 June 2017
Ref. No: 3600/pa/2017

Dear Sirs

First of all, I want to thank you for all the support Change Mind-Global Aid has given us by sponsoring room no. 11. Your patronage is vital for us to carry on receiving children and youths who are displaced from their homes in order to receive medical treatment at the Coimbra Hospitals. Thank you very much!
As a token of gratitude, I enclose a drawing made by Jacira.
When Jacira arrived from Guinea Bissau she could not speak a word of Portuguese. Partly because she didn’t know the language, but also because she was very frightened by a completely different reality of the one she knew (country, culture, way of dressing, climate, food, the hospital…). One year has gone by, Jacira walks around the house, smiling and playing with the ACREDITAR volunteers. And she speaks Portuguese of course.
Like Jacira, also Sofia from Lisbon, Hugo from Guarda and Alexandra from the Azores, among others, found in the year 2016 safe shelter in the room that Change Mind-Global Aid so gently provides for them. And thus, they were able to benefit from all the material and human services from the Coimbra ACREDITAR Association.
We need all and every one of our Patrons to continue our work. We need you.

I therefore invite Change Mind-Global Aid to renew its sponsoring of a room for yet another year, in the absolute belief that together we can always reach out further.

Thank you for believing with us.

Paula Andrade
(Manager of ACREDITAR in Coimbra)

ACREDITAR
To
Change Mind – Global Aid

Coimbra, 26 June 2017
Ref. No: 3600/pa/2017

Dear Sirs

First of all, I want to thank you for all the support Change Mind-Global Aid has given us by sponsoring room no. 11. Your patronage is vital for us to carry on receiving children and youths who are displaced from their homes in order to receive medical treatment at the Coimbra Hospitals. Thank you very much!
As a token of gratitude, I enclose a drawing made by Jacira.
When Jacira arrived from Guinea Bissau she could not speak a word of Portuguese. Partly because she didn’t know the language, but also because she was very frightened by a completely different reality of the one she knew (country, culture, way of dressing, climate, food, the hospital…). One year has gone by, Jacira walks around the house, smiling and playing with the ACREDITAR volunteers. And she speaks Portuguese of course.
Like Jacira, also Sofia from Lisbon, Hugo from Guarda and Alexandra from the Azores, among others, found in the year 2016 safe shelter in the room that Change Mind-Global Aid so gently provides for them. And thus, they were able to benefit from all the material and human services from the Coimbra ACREDITAR Association.
We need all and every one of our Patrons to continue our work. We need you.

I therefore invite Change Mind-Global Aid to renew its sponsoring of a room for yet another year, in the absolute belief that together we can always reach out further.

Thank you for believing with us.

Paula Andrade
(Manager of ACREDITAR in Coimbra)



Translation Ana Diogo, Portugal

"Dear Friends,

You can not imagine how important your support for us is.
This time the sponsorship is a room for one year at ACREDITAR Coimbra!!
We have no words to thank you more. THANK YOU!

We are waiting for your visit."

ACREDITAR
Coimbra, 4.04.2016

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“Amigos,

Não imaginam como o vosso apoio é importante para nós.
Desta vez o patrocinio de um quarto da Casa de Coimbra, por um ano!!
Não temos mais palavras para vos agradecer para além de um grande OBRIGADO!

Esperamos a vossa visita.”

ACREDITAR
Coimbra, 04. 04.2016

We made it! Our ambitious goal is achieved!

We are very pleased that we could collect the sum of CHF 11,015.
Dear booster with your large and small donations you have helped the project to succeed.

A big thank you to all.

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Conseguimos!!! O nosso ambicioso objectivo foi atingido!!!

É com grande orgulho e reconhecimento que informamos que conseguimos angariar a bonita soma de CHF 11.015,00!
Caros doadores: Com os vossos generosos donativos permitiram que o nosso projecto fosse um sucesso!

Um grande obrigado por nos permitirem continuara a mudar o Mundo!!!

We want to thank most sincerely all our donors for their solidarity towards our project and for the generous donations.
Please let all your friends and acquaintances know about our project, so that they also have the opportunity to participate with an donation.

„Change Mind. Let' make some changes!"

“When I hear of ACREDITAR it immediately comes to my mind what a relief it brought to me and still does.
I warmly thank those who take the time for this cause. Go on to give a smile!”

Salomé, in “Vidas Contadas”

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“Quando me falam da ACREDITAR, o que imediatamente penso é o quão me fizeram e continuam a fazer feliz.
Agradeço do fundo do coração às pessoas que dão tempo da sua vida por esta causa! Continuem a fazer sorrir muita gente!”

Salomé, in “Vidas Contadas”

“ACREDITAR in Coimbra was the door that opened (...) when I needed a safe harbor (...). In order to relieve this phase of life, I was given shelter and moral support, without that I had to give anything in return.
At ACREDITAR I exchanged experiences with parents of children with various complex health conditions, a reality known only to concerned, but the truth is that I have never met people with so much faith as in this phase of of life.
To all, my big thanks, a hug and a lot of power by someone who never forgot who did good to him.”
Pablo, Father of Alexandre
in “Vidas Contadas”
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“A ACREDITAR, em Coimbra, foi a porta que se abriu (…), quando precisei de um porto de abrigo (…). Tudo me foi dado a nível habitacional, e moral sem nada me ser pedido em troca, para que esta etapa da minha vida fosse mesmo penosa.
Na ACREDITAR partilhei experiências com outros pais com filhos com problemas de saúde variados e complicados, uma realidade só conhecida daqueles que por ela passam, mas a verdade é que nunca conheci pessoas com tanta força de acreditar como nesta fase da minha vida.
A todos o meu muito obrigado, um abraço e muita força de quem nunca se esquece quem só bem lhe fez."
Pablo, Pai do Alexandre
in “Vidas Contadas”