Just a Change is a non-profit organization that rebuilds homes for people in need in Portugal.
To date, Just a Change as rebuilt hundreds of houses and institutions, mobilizing thousands of Portuguese and international volunteers.
Just a Change is a non-profit organization that rebuilds homes for people in need in Portugal.
To date, Just a Change as rebuilt hundreds of houses and institutions, mobilizing thousands of Portuguese and international volunteers.
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 ahead and dream of a World full of Joy, Hope and Kindness 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 Kindness. We want to carry our dream to each house, each volunteer and each partner. This vision is a real objective, for the lives of each one of the people involved, because if we have left Joy, Hope and Kindness in a house forever, the world has already been transformed for the better.
Our Pillars
Service
In everything, we put ourselves
at the service of others
Safety
In every constrution
and activities
Sustainable Impact
Efficiency, quality,
social effectiveness and
financial sustainability
Our Pillars
Service
Safety
Sustainable Impact
Our Methodology
We create impact by collaborating in an integrated and organized way
We create impact by collaborating in an integrated and organized way
Report
Mobilize
Renovate
Follow Up
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.
Once the interventions are defined, Just a Change is in charge of mobilizing the main resources necessary for the project and execution.
Articulating all local agents involved in order to maximize social cohesion. Throughout all the construction work, Just a Change focuses on creating relationships with its beneficiaries. We challenge the beneficiaries to participate in the intervention.
Just a Change ensures that the change done during the construction work does not disappear, promoting the involvement of other local agents, dedicated to monitoring other social issues.
Local Partners
Just a Change
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.
Turn up
During the year, we have 4-hour shifts, once a week, during 1 month. In Lisbon, Porto and Guimarães
ALL IN
An intense day, where companies go all out, involving their employees and generating social impact, with their hands dirty.
Camp in
During the summer months, the 15 day camps spread around the country.
Turn Up
During the school year, 4 hours a week, during 1 month. In Lisbon, Porto and Guimarães.
All In
An intense day, in which companies go all in, involving their employees and generatins social impact.
The team
Guilherme Fogaça
Diretor Executivo
Mafalda Negrão
Diretora Financeira e de Impacto
Sofia Cotrim
Diretora de Operações
Arickson Maocha
Serviços Administrativos e Financeiros
Solange Ramos
Serviços Administrativos e Financeiros
Eduardo Lopes
Diretor de Operações Norte
António Batista
Gestor de Projeto
Carlota Leite
Gestora de Projeto
Gonçalo Ferro
Gestor de Projeto
Maria Mieiro
Gestora de Projeto
José Coimbra
Gestor de Projeto
Catarina Peixoto
Gestora de Projeto
João Trindade
Gestor de Projecto
Beatriz Gomes
Gestora de Projecto
Luís Paradela
Assistente de Projeto
Samuel ‘Amado’ Luwawa
Técnico de Obra
Arnóbio Serafim
Técnico de Obra
José Afonso
Diretor de Parcerias
Maria Silva
Gestora de Parcerias
Patrícia Boa-Alma
Gestora de Parcerias
Teresa Matos
Gestora de Parcerias
Clara Tripodi
Gestora de Fundos, Financiamentos e Prémios
Bernardo Xavier
Gestor de Parcerias Públicas
Rita Pequito
Gestora de Comunicação e Fundraising
Maria Moradias
Gestora de Comunicação e Fundraising
Inês Gonçalves
Especialista de Impacto
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 projects in 2021, 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
Ashoka
Caixa Geral de Depósitos (CGD)
In 2020, CGD supported our Disclosure Project with a €10,000 prize.
VINCI – VINCI Program for Citizenship in 2019
Microsoft International
Recognized as one of three projects in the world to be invested by Microsoft in 2017.
Porticus
Awarded 150.000€ in 2018 and 2019 to improve revenue streams with social business models, implementing a strong fundraising strategy and improving the financial management processes.
Partnerships for Impact
(2017) Recognized as an innovative Social Entrepreneurship initiative by the Portuguese Social Innovation Investment Structure. 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)
One of the five winning projects in implementing innovative solutions to combat energy poverty. Awarded a prize of 2.000€ and an acceleration program.
BPI Solidariedade 2018 (BPI and Fundação “la Caixa”)
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.