In the context of the Vasco Vieira de Almeida Foundation’s partnership with Teach for Portugal, Patrícia Pereira Gomes, Inês Moreno, Inês Morais Loureiro and Carolina Galrão Ferreira participated in the Candidate Assessment Centres held on 30 April, 9 and 13 May aimed at identifying future mentors to participate in Teach For Portugal’s Leadership Development Programme.

With this programme, Teach For Portugal works to ensure that a child’s socio-economic background does not prevent them from achieving personal and professional fulfilment. With this in mind, it recruits mentors who will act as agents for change, both inside and outside the classroom.

This recruitment process is one of the most important steps towards building a movement of exceptional leaders committed to reducing educational inequality and capable of transforming the reality of the children targeted by the project.  

The Vasco Vieira de Almeida Foundation has supported Teach For Portugal, a Portuguese non-profit organisation and member of the international Teach For All network, since 2018. Teach For Portugal works in disadvantaged schools and aims to reduce educational inequality by offering children from underprivileged backgrounds the opportunity to reach their full potential.

 

Testimonial

"Our participation in Teach For Portugal’s recruitment dynamics represented, above all, an opportunity to learn and share knowledge. The Teach team’s concern in ensuring that the candidates are treated with the greatest possible care throughout each stage of the recruitment and selection process is noteworthy.

During the activities, we had the chance to meet candidates from different fields but motivated by the same passion: promoting education for all. It was particularly enriching to participate in this phase and to help select the future professionals who will contribute to closing the educational inequality gap and will provide children from more disadvantaged backgrounds with the opportunity to achieve their full potential."

- Inês Moreno, Inês Morais Loureiro and Carolina Galrão Ferreira, Human Resources Department