RENOVATING HOMES,
REBUILDING LIVES

Just a Change is a non-profit association that rebuilds homes for needy people in Portugal.

To date, Just a Change has rebuilt hundreds of homes and institutions, having mobilized thousands of volunteers inside and outside the country.

Our Mission

We rehabilitate houses without roofs, windows and doors.
Houses where there is no hot water or electricity. We rehabilitate homes where it gets cold.

We rehabilitate houses because we believe that living conditions have a direct impact on reducing poverty and crime in the population.
We rehabilitate homes because we know it improves public health and energy efficiency in our country.
We rehabilitate houses because we know that this can be the starting point for a new life.
We rehabilitate houses so that everyone has a decent place to live.

We rebuild lives because we bring volunteers full of joy and hope to people’s homes.
We rebuild lives because we give hope to those who no longer had it, and because we mobilize the community to help and recover their loved ones.

We rebuild lives because home is the most important place in the world and we all deserve to have one.

Our Vision

We look to the future and dream of a World where there is Joy, Hope and Charity in every home.

We also look at what we do and what we leave behind, everywhere we go. We want you to see us as those who sow Joy, Hope and Charity. Queremos levar este nosso sonho a cada casa, a cada voluntário e a cada parceiro. This vision is a real objective, for the lives of each one of the people involved, because if we have left Joy, Hope and Charity in a house forever, the world has already been transformed for the better.

Our Mission

We rehabilitate houses without roofs, windows and doors.
Houses where there is no hot water or electricity. We rehabilitate homes where it gets cold.

We rebuild lives because home is the most important place in the world and we all deserve to have one.

Our Vision

We look to the future and dream of a World where there is Joy, Hope and Charity in every home.

Our Pillars

Service

In all, we put ourselves
in the service of others

Security

In all works
and activities

Sustainable Impact

Efficiency, Quality,
Social Effectiveness and
Financial Sustainability

We create impact by collaborating in an integrated and organized way

Local Partners

Just a Change

Report

Mobilize local agents to signal cases of housing poverty and apply Just a Change criteria to select cases that will be the target of intervention.

Mobilize

Once the interventions are defined, Just a Change is in charge of mobilizing the main resources necessary for the project and execution.

Renovate

Throughout the work, Just a Change is focused on creating a relationship with its beneficiaries and managing the relationship with partners to enhance social cohesion. During the intervention, beneficiaries are challenged to participate.

Follow Up

Just a Change ensures that the change wrought by the work does not disappear, promoting the involvement of other local agents, dedicated to monitoring other social issues.

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just a change programs

We have developed several intervention programs that allow us to act in different contexts in parallel, thus enhancing the social impact and social cohesion in local communities.

Camp in

In the summer months, the 15-day Just a Change Camps spread across the country and generate social impact in local communities.

Keep up

Just a Change’s weekly bootcamps maintain the joy of Just constructions in Lisbon and Porto.

ALL IN

An intense day, where companies go all out, involving their employees and generating social impact, with their hands dirty.

Partners

Eradicating housing poverty will always depend on the joint effort of various sectors. We seek to work with partners who want to help us achieve this end, whether working on the issue of housing and energy poverty, or with support in kind or construction material.

All partners take us further, whether they accompany us just one step or the whole way.

“Effectively, change is almost impossible without industry-wide collaboration, cooperation and consensus.”
Simon Mainwaring

Municipal and Regional

Technical, Management and Resources

The team

Simão Oom

Diretor Executivo

Mafalda Negrão

Diretora Financeira e de Impacto

Guilherme Fogaça

Diretor de Operações

Arickson Maocha

Serviços Administrativos e Financeiros

João Captivo

Gestor de Operações | Lisboa

Eduardo Lopes

Gestor de Operações | Porto

António Batista

Gestor de Projeto

Duarte Almeida

Gestor de Projeto

Gonçalo Ferro

Gestor de Projeto

João Trindade

Gestor de Projecto

Sofia Cotrim

Gestora de Projeto

Samuel ‘Amado’ Luwawa

Técnico de Obra

Arnóbio Serafim

Técnico de Obra

José Afonso

Diretor de Parcerias

Madalena Jalles

Gestora de Parcerias

Pedro Rodrigues

Gestor de Parcerias

Rita Lucena

Diretora de Fundos, Financiamentos e Prémios

Constança Dias

Diretora de Comunicação e Fundraising

Rita Pequito

Gestora de Comunicação e Fundraising

Suppliers

Just a Change also has the support of several partners who provide various materials, of excellent quality, essential for the development of the work. The work we do is only possible thanks to the precious help of everyone involved!

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SAINT-GOBAIN

Mortars
Insulations

IKEA

Furniture

LEROY MERLIN

Tools
Equipments
Construction material

Schuss

Windows
Glass

Henkel

Cleaning products

CIN

Paint

Starbucks

Coffee Station
for corporate events

Hertz

Cars & Trucks

Molaflex

Beds
Matresses

C2Catering

ecological catering items

Daikin

Air conditioning equipment

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

For more than 10 years, Just a Change has been accumulating several distinctions. Undoubtedly, all this recognition is thanks to a collective effort by all stakeholders.

Take a look below at what we’ve achieved so far!

“A Place Called Home”

IKEA Portugal supported 4 Camp In 2021 projects, enabling the rehabilitation of 15 houses.

BPI Senior 2020

Support to implement a project focused on the elderly in Óbidos, which resulted in the rehabilitation of 4 houses in the region.

World Habitat Awards

The Camp In project was recognized with the 2020 Bronze Award for practical and innovative solutions to the current global housing crisis.

Ashoka

António Bello, one of the founders of Just a Change was nominated and became an Ashoka Fellow in 2018.

Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD)

In 2020, CGD supported our Disclosure Project with a €10,000 prize.

VINCI – VINCI Program for Citizenship in 2019

Turn Up Project distinguished with a subsidy of €25,000

Microsoft International

Recognized as one of three projects in the world to be invested by Microsoft in 2017.

Porticus

€150,000 allocated in 2018 and 2019 to improve revenue streams with some social business models, by implementing a strong fundraising strategy and improving financial management processes.

Partnerships for Impact (Portugal Social Innovation)

Recognized, in 2017, as an innovative initiative of Social Entrepreneurship, by the Structure of Investment in Portuguese Social Innovation. Award of a subsidy of €122,500 to be implemented in social investment.

INSEAD

Winners of the INSEAD Social Entrepreneurship Program, in 2018.

Social Innovation to tackle Fuel Poverty 2018 (Ashoka and Schneider Electric)

(2017) Distinguished as one of the five winning projects in the implementation of innovative solutions in the fight against energy poverty. We were awarded a prize of €2,000 and an acceleration program.

BPI Solidarity 2018 (BPI and “la Caixa” Foundation)

Award of €40,000, in 2018.

Start TelAviv

In 2017, we were offered a roadshow to Israel, with a presence at the DLD Innovation Festival, thus representing Portugal.

Santander’s University Volunteering Awards

Distinguished in 2016, with the amount of €5,000 and a strategic fundraising partner JAC’s.

Manuel António da Mota Award (FMAM)

Recognized with an honorable distinction in 2015 and a partnership in 2016 equivalent to more than €30,000/year.

Youth Volunteering Montepio Awards

Received a prize of €3,000 in 2013.

Do Something Awards

Received a prize of €1,000 in 2011.

Transparency

At Just a Change, we value transparency.
This is the only way we can continue to work with impact, with an eye on the future and with our mission in mind.

RENOVATING HOMES, REBUILDING LIVES

Just a Change is a non-profit association that rebuilds homes for needy people in Portugal.​

Our Mission

Our Vision

We look to the future and dream of a World where there is Joy, Hope and Charity in every home.

Our Mission

Our Vision

We look to the future and dream of a World where there is Joy, Hope and Charity in every home.

Our Pillars

Service

Security

Sustainable Impact

We create impact by collaborating in an integrated and organized way

Report

Mobilize

Renovate

Follow Up

just a change programs

Camp in

Keep up

ALL IN

Partners

Municipal and Regional

Technical, Management and Resources

The team

Suppliers

SAINT-GOBAIN

IKEA

LEROY MERLIN

Schuss

Henkel

CIN

Starbucks

Hertz

Molaflex

C2Catering

Daikin

AWARDS AND DISTINCTIONS

“A Place Called Home”

BPI Senior 2020

World Habitat Awards

Ashoka

Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD)

VINCI – VINCI Program for Citizenship in 2019

Microsoft International

Porticus

Partnerships for Impact (Portugal Social Innovation)

INSEAD

Social Innovation to tackle Fuel Poverty 2018 (Ashoka and Schneider Electric)

BPI Solidarity 2018 (BPI and “la Caixa” Foundation)

Start TelAviv

Santander’s University Volunteering Awards

Manuel António da Mota Award (FMAM)

Youth Volunteering Montepio Awards

Do Something Awards

Transparency

account reports

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RENOVATING HOMES,
REBUILDING LIVES

Just a Change is a non-profit association that rebuilds homes for needy people in Portugal.