The CERCIGUI - Co-operative Society for Education and Rehabilitation and of Inadapted Citizens from the region of Guimarães is a thirty-year-old institution, created in 1977 in order to support Guimarães’ population with mental disabilities as well as their families.
Since then, the services done to the community have been expanded, even geographically. At the moment there are different types of work and services being done.
Educational Center – since 1977
Domiciliary support service – since 1988
Rehabilitation and Training Center – since 1990
Occupational Activities Center I/Ponte – since 1995
Occupational Activities Center II/Sede – since 1998
Residential Home I/Rendufe – since 2000
Local Resources Center – since 2001
Inclusion Resources Center – since 2009
Residential Home II/Ponte –since 2010
Inclusion Resources Center – since 2009
To promote the support and inclusion of the citizens with disabilities.
To promote the development of the capacities of children, youngs and adults with disabilities or with other serious problems related to social insertion.
To contribute for well-being, the happiness and quality of life of the customers, collaborators and them families.
To contribute for a society more joust, more solidary and therefore more humanist.
To promote the social insertion of people with disabilities according to the ethical code.
Mental
Motor
Multideficiency
Learning difficulties
Young people in social risk
Nowadays, CERCIGUI serves approximately 450 people in the various spacies inside the institution and in schools in the region of Guimarães and Vizela, trough different support services and programs.
The institution employs 88 workers.
This certificate applies only to the Rehabilitation and Training Center and Occupational Activities Center I/Ponte