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Portuguese enrichment trip for foundation learners

Published
Monday 17 Jun 2019

A group of Myerscough College Foundation Learning staff and students have just returned from a work experience and enrichment trip to Portugal.

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The group had the opportunity of a work experience project with a specialist centre for the treatment of cerebral palsy, as well as a number of other activities including workshops, sight-seeing tours and other cultural enrichment.

APCC-Associação de Paralisia Cerebral de Coimbra and Myerscough College & University Centre have collaborated together for a number of years now, with the aim of promoting the social integration of people with disabilities, through the exchange of work experience and knowledge at both local and European level, to integrate young people into the labour market.

Myerscough students took part in many different activities including a visit to their Rehabilitation Centre and the farm, a cultural day visiting Coimbra University, the bell tower and Botanical Gardens, harvesting fruit and veg so they could be sold at market, a boat trip down the river making bread, playing sports and enjoying everything that the country had to offer.

Every year the students have an unforgettable experience, with parents pleased that they have come back more confident having been away for the first time independently, and developing a vast range of skills which will live with them forever, in particular the immense growth in confidence and independence.

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by Dave Salmon

DSalmon@myerscough.ac.uk