ADAPO is a non-profit group, established in May 2004 in Olhão, with a mission is to improve the living conditions of the animals. It is dedicated to reducing the local feral population of cats and dogs by neutering and rehoming. Can you help?

There is so much doom and gloom around at the moment that StreetLife decided it was time to try and generate a few smiles. StreetLife is looking for the best smiling dogs in the East Algarve. 

As you know, APAA does not have a rescue centre, but that doesn’t stop people contacting us when they have found an abandoned dog, often in poor condition. 

One and a half tons was the amount of food that the educational community of the Vilamoura International School managed to gather in this Christmas Campaign. The food collection provided support to the “Refeitório Social de Quarteira”, to the “Associação Existir” and to the Algarve Network for Families in Need.

The Silves based charity Castelo de Sonhos (CdeS) would like to thank everyone who took part in their Family Christmas Food Basket campaign. Due to the annual CdeS family party being cancelled the charity decided to distribute family food baskets, plus toys for children registered with CdeS. 

The '16th annual Christmas Shoebox Campaign for the Elderly' this year has once again been a tremendous success.  Over 250 boxes were collected and delivered.

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.