Humanitarian Projects
Templar Corps Commander Leads Team in Training in Trauma Victim Approach and Basic Life Support in Cape Verde
Jorge Amador, Knight Captain and Vice-National Commander Relief/Humanitarian Efforts of the Templar Corps unit from the Algarve, Portugal, lead the team that conducted a one week long Training program for the Boa Vista Municipality in Cape Verde.
A total of 27 trainees, including Municipal Firefighters, Red Cross and volunteers, completed the training in approaching trauma victims and basic life support with AED (Automated External Defibrillator) in the city of Sal-Rei.
The training took place between the 21st and 24th of March and was given by Jorge Amador from “Medy Ambulâncias” and Vice-National Commander Relief/Humanitarian Efforts of the Templar Corps, and Vitor Brito, Fire Chief of Montijo, Portugal.
“We are now more capable”, said Danilson Gonçalves, responsible for the Municipal Firefighters, referring to the importance of training to acquire more knowledge and be better prepared to serve the population.
The Councilor for Civil Protection of the Boa Vista City Council, João Mendes, highlighted that the training will allow firefighters to be better prepared for emergencies, while the municipality will continue to reinforce the capacity of firefighters to intervene and provide conditions to respond to situations of emergency.
Templar Corps International is launched on Pentecost day 2020
Amidst the impactful effects of the COVID19 pandemic, that prevents all international meetings, the OSMTHU has launched the Templar Corps Platform (templarcorps.org). The initiative has been in development ever since Master Antonio Paris resumed his term in office in 2018, as a technological tool to support international Templar cooperation in real world projects.
Under the motto “Ethics and Service for a new century”, the Templar Corps International (TCI) is a group of men and women with a Templar background, organized locally in units spread across the world, ready to put their energy, passion and intelligence at the service of mankind. Members come from a wide range of Templar Orders in over 20 countries, whose membership to a Templar structure is acknowledged and equivalent rank given. A significant number of members have come to the Templar Corps with no previous Templar connection of any kind – which is not required.
Unlike a traditional Order, vertical and highly hierarchical in nature, the Templar Corps International is an horizontal organization, managed as a network of highly motivated individuals run through nodes that roughly correspond to regional hubs.
These hubs run local projects, cooperate with projects run by other hubs and materialize in the real world, with real people, and real work, the conceptual aims of Spiritual Chivalry as inspired by the Order of the Temple and other traditional spiritual and historical sources.
These projects cover a wide range of traditional areas of interest, all with a Templar focus:
- Charity, international aid and disaster relief
- Historical research and publishing, scholarship, learning
- Traditional crafts, professions and industries, including swordsmith, pottery, wood carving, …
- Traditional arts, painting, sculpture, music, theater, literature, …
- Farming, hospitality, pilgrimage support and aid, …
- Ethical business, trading and technology
- Entertainment, documentaries, film, digital media, …
- Tourism, guided tours, spiritual retreats, …
- Leadership training, self-improvement programs, advisory, …
- Intellectual Property creation and management, …
A list of supported and affiliated local Projects is available. It includes humanitarian work in Europe, South America and Africa. A Global Forum event is held online monthly, where leading specialists discuss some of the most important issues related to the service Corps.
The Templar Globe welcomes the Templar Corps International to the Templar family of websites. We will be bringing to our readers the latest Corps announcements, events and news.
More information: templarcorps.org
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