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Sara de Melo Castanheira is an expert in Occupational Therapy and Quality of Life. She is also the Technical Director of SER Igual, an Association of special rehabilitation services in Tavira A SUPERPOWERSllchildrenhaveaspecial gift and special power. Each one has a unique way of interpreting life and appreciating their She uses her superpower to overcome life's Utility. This method of support is a way of obstacles and be more and more autonomous raising funds that ensure the continuity of each day. João has cerebral palsy and uses the work of Associação SER Igual. The IRS his superpower to excel in therapies and tax consignment does not represent for the achieve new skills. Carlos was born premature taxpayer any payment or additional expense, daily routine. Each child and uses his superpower to learn new meaning only that 0,5% of the tax already has a specific way of engaging in playfulness. academic skills at his \"By doing this, you are paid to the IRS and All children have a superpower! own pace. Constança paid by the taxpayer in It doesn't matter if she comes across a high has hyperactivity allowing the government the year to be declared stone wall or a pond so big that it invades disorder and uses to give 0,5% of the tax you will be donated to everything. Or if she gets tired after having her superpower to our association in the travelled many kilometres. Petra never gives feel capable and pay, to be consigned and following year. This up - she follows her path against winds and gain the courage to transferred to Associação way, instead of all your seas until she reaches the goal. Petra’s learn more carefully taxes going to state superpower is PERSEVERANCE. at school. Tomé has SER Igual. This does not coffers, you can have a João is afraid of a lot of things, which autism and uses his change your tax bill and voice and make part of sometimes is good, because it can protect superpower to feel safe it go to our cause. will allow SER Igual to him. But there are certain occasions when and comfortable and continue the work with our HOW CAN I GIVE MY fear prevents him from doing what he needs be able to overcome CONTRIBUTION TO and wants. So João takes a deep breath, fills challenges in therapies social projects\". ASSOCIAÇÃO SER up with strength and decides, with courage, and at school. IGUAL? to face his difficulties. João’s superpower is All children with and When submitting your BRAVERY. without disabilities are superheroes and have annual Personal Income Tax declaration – Carlos is able to see a red ant, the kind that superpowers. Therefore, all children should IRS - Model 3 (only available online) in box stings, among a million black ants. He is interact and play in the same way and be 11, mark with an “X” in Private Institutions of able to hear the rattle of a cat that got lost happy in their unique and special way of Social Solidarity or Public Utility Collective in the hustle and bustle of the biggest party. being. Persons, put the NIPC (Taxpayer Identification When he touches something, his skin acts At the moment Associação SER Igual helps Number) of Associação SER Igual – 514 647 as a powerful detector of shapes, textures with therapies in our rehabilitation centre, 450 and in the space in front, mark another and temperatures. Carlos’ superpower is 40 children between 0-18 years old with “X”. By doing this, you are allowing the ATTENTION. disabilities. With our Allsports project we government to give 0,5% of the tax you pay, to Constança does not mind moving by land, have already put 35 children with ages be consigned and transferred to Associação sea or air. She can do everything that is between 6-14, doing a sport activity with SER Igual. This does not change your tax bill physically proposed. There was one time that their peers without disabilities. With the and will allow SER Igual to continue the work she climbed hundreds of steps of a very high SER100%+project we are helping more than with our social projects, helping children and tower, without getting tired, to contemplate the 40 children with ages between 4-10 years old, teenagers with disabilities and their parents to most beautiful shooting stars. Constança´s to develop expressive and comprehensive have a better life with a better life-quality. If superpower is AGILITY. language, reading, communicational and you are not the one filling your IRS, please ask Tomé is like a photography machine, and it is socialisation skills. We are now preparing your accountant to give the tax consignation why he is able to remember even the smallest the summer vacation camp 2022, similar to Associação SER Igual. detail: the colour of a schoolboy’s socks, the to the previous editions, where each week We will be glad to talk about our ideas and number of freckles on a blonde girl, and the 25 children with and without disabilities, projects. If you are interested in our work, name of all the sheep in a large flock. Tomé’s play together, practice sports activities, do please visit us on our FB page (@SerIgualPT) superpower is MEMORY. nautical activities and grow healthy in sharing and IG (@igual.ser) or make an appointment to These five children have superpowers like and inclusion. [email protected] or by phone 918180020. I their peers. And while you are reading the remind you, dear reader, that Associação article you are thinking about how great The IRS consignation is a system prepared SER Igual in Tavira is a non-profit association these superpowers are and possibly you are by the Portuguese Government that allows for handicap people, that helps children, finding similarities with a child you know. But IRS taxpayers to freely assign 0,5% of the teenagers and their caregivers to get a better Petra, João, Carlos, Constança and Tomé total tax they paid to the Portuguese State quality of life and helping to change the in addition to their superpowers, they are to an institution. The opportunity to consign paradigm of inclusion in our community. also superheroes. Petra suffered a traumatic the IRS is an important method of supporting Thanks once more for your attention. Stay brain injury and uses a wheelchair to move. our non-profit association, which has a Public safe and stay tuned for the next article. 52 www.eastalgarvemag.com
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Health WOMEN’S LIBERATION MOVEMENT – GOOD NEWS OR TAX MULE? With International Women's day approaching, Elaine T Godley gives us a brief history about the organisation he feminist movement has Steinem and other feminine activists, ten Elaine Godley MBA, O.A. Dip (Psych) undergone many transitions years later, the organisation extended the idea Elaine hails from the UK and lives in the in both Eastern and Western to include all genders. The original concept Algarve, Portugal. Her clients live all over society dating as far back as was created to support young women to the world and enjoy better health, greater 615bc when the ancient Greek raise self-esteem in the workplace and life mobility and reduced pain. Through ‘at female poet Soppho wrote generally. This year, young people will invade home’ laboratory blood tests, hair mineral about sexuality. the workplace on April 28th 2022. tissue analysis, online metabolic testing and Rumour has it that women were encouraged The pressure on women to work in the behaviour analysis, Elaine guides individuals to go to work because only half the population modern world is phenomenal. Society puts how to improve their health and wellbeing to were taxed. Significant tax revenue was great demands on women to be super- reverse or avoid illness and disease. Elaine generated not just from the working women, human hot-deskers with multiple roles as a is an entrepreneur, former CEO, beat stage but also from a necessary new industry – mother; career woman; wife; homemaker; IV cancer and congenital kidney disease childcare which generated jobs and even housekeeper and all-round good egg. No using an integrative approach. She blends more tax revenue. wonder so many women suffer with mental psychology and nutrition, mentoring families Gloria Steinem a leading US journalist, feminist health issues. and senior executives to heal their body. and activist, co-founded Ms magazine in 1972, The next International Women’s Day is March For details on the Perfect 10 VIP Health specifically to encourage young women to 8th 2022. I wonder what Soppho would make Mentoring Programme contact: follow the trend to become independent. of this celebration and whether she would [email protected] In April 1993, the first “Take Your Daughter agree or disagree on the equality/glass ceiling to Work Day” was celebrated. Launched by debate? 54 www.eastalgarvemag.com
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Gardens BloAboomuting Spring has arrived, adding sweetness to the air and time transforming the landscape with intense colours. Here is a little guide to some of the more commonly seen wildflowers growing in the East of the Algarve and that are currently in full bloom! ALMOND TREE - PRUNUS DULCIS The end of winter and arrival of spring is proclaimed when a delicate blanket of pink and white covers the Algarve. In the months of February and March, the soft white colour of the almond-trees in blossom mixes with the greens and browns of the surrounding landscape. The fragrant sweet smelling almond blossoms drench the Algarve air and provide an unforgettable and magical period of time. 56 www.eastalgarvemag.com
BERMUDA BUTTERCUP - OXALIS PES-CAPRAE ONE LEAVED SQUILL - Fields covered with a sea of endless yellow flowers. SCILLA MONOPHYLLOS While beautiful and adding a pop of colour during As the name monophyllos winter, this plant is listed as an invasive plant. suggests, this flower appears Indigenous to South Africa, the plant has become a to grow only one leaf. It is a pest plant in different parts of the world and difficult fairly common find in lightly to eradicate because of how it propagates through wooded areas of Portugal, underground bulbs. If it should arrive unwanted in southern Spain and Morocco. your garden, the best way to get rid of it is by pulling In Portugal it can be found it out manually. in almond orchards. This wildflower can be seen in bloom from March through to around May; it is a member of the Lily family (Liliaceae). GUM ROCK ROSE - CISTUS LADANIFER The flowers of the Rock Rose are rather crumpled-looking, with translucent petals, some pure white and others white with dark maroon spots. The sticky fragrant substance which comes from the tough, dark green leaves of the plant is used in the perfume industry. Gum Rock Rose is native to Portugal, its flowers releasing the smell typical to the Algarve and the one we all know and love can be seen from March to June. LANDSCAPING & GARDEN CENTER BEM-VINDO • WELCOME QUINTA DAS PALMEIRAS CENTRO DE JARDINAGEM EN 125, c.p. 126-E 8800-118 To To Moncarapacho Luz de Luz de Tavira Olhão EN125 Tavira e-mail: [email protected] Fuseta To Tavira www.geojardim.com Tel: 281 961 189 Look out for the flags Find us on facebook at: Geojardim Landscaping & Garden Center www.eastalgarvemag.com 57
Gardens PEONY - PAEONIA BROTEROI The Peony is a perennial, herbaceous species of peony. It is an endemic species of the Iberian Peninsula. The pink rose is a highly fragrant flower. The plant reaches up to 40 centimetres (16 in) in height. The common name in Portugal is Rosa-Albardeira. It grows in rocky places and humid spots, flowering from March to May STRAWBERRY TREE - ARBUTUS UNEDO YELLOW BROOMRAPE - A charming broadleaf evergreen shrub, with its remarkable CISTANCHE PHELYPAEA bell-shaped flowers hanging from the tip of the branches. Without question, the salt-marsh The Strawberry Tree blooms between October and April and ‘star attraction’ is Cistanche typically yields its fruits in winter. The fruits gradually ripen to Phelypaea. A member of the yellow and then red over a twelve month period. The berries Orobanchaceae (Broomrape) are harvested and used to make the popular drink Medronho. family. These fascinating, bright yellow flowers are found only in SOUTHERN GRAPE southern Portugal and southern HYACINTH - MUSCARI Spain, on Crete, and in a few parts of the extreme eastern NEGLECTUM Mediterranean and are particularly The Grape Hyacinth is a well represented at Ria Formosa. perennial wildflower growing from a bulb. Typically, plants reach a height of about 12 cm, but in sheltered locations specimens up to 20cm tall can be found. Growing wild throughout the Mediterranean, it is a common sight in grassy coastal dune slacks. Muscari neglectum can be found in fields, scrub and in exposed rocky places from February onwards. FRENCH LAVENDER - And last but not least, this one we could not leave LAVANDULA STOECHAS off the list even though it will not start to flower French lavender has its name until May. from the country where it was SEA LAVENDER - LIMONIUM ALGARVENSE developed and grown intensively The Sea Lavender is endemic to this region. It is for perfume. In France, a common a perennial plant, limited to the Algarve and, in name for it is “butterfly lavender” Spain, to the provinces of Huelva and Cádiz. because the tips of the flowers look It is found in coastal rocks, marshes and coastal like butterflies. French lavender sand, owing its name to its location in the thrives in the Algarve. We have Algarve. Flowering: from May to August. spotted many lavender in bloom even though the typical flowering season is June to August. 58 www.eastalgarvemag.com
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