Twenty-two disadvantaged families on the Algarve’s west coast will be having (or, ‘had’, if using after Christmas) a far happier Christmas than they might otherwise have expected.

For the last 9 years Rotary Club Estoi Palace International (RCEPI) has given a Portuguese / English and English / Portuguese dictionary to each of the 5th year students of the School “Poeta Emiliano da Costa" in Estoi. 

Carol Harvey of Portugal Slippers has very kindly  donated a large number of Traditional Portuguese Slippers to raise funds for Castelos de Sonhos, to buy food for families in need this Christmas.

Algarve west coast community association, Amovate, has stepped up its charity work to bring aid to people in the area suffering through the pandemic.

In a little under a month, Charlie Perring is setting off on Long Way Across, a 301 kms non-stop trek (east to west) of the Algarve, to raise funds for the Wildlife Ranger Challenge - an initiative created by TUSK to support the men and women rangers who dedicate their lives patrolling the national parks and game reserves of Africa, to protect the precious wildlife that remains there.