Education

I've been working at Pro-solia as an electrician for 5 years. I finished my electrical course at ADPP Vocational School Bissorã in 2019 and got this job. I'm one of the best electricians in the company and the only woman. Every day, I perform solar panel maintenance, and I'm the first one up the ladder. Many of my colleagues don't, but I believe...
Fatumata Fate
ADPP Vocational School Bissorã
“Learn to know, understand, and use the understanding to create positive change in your community” I left my husband and children to attend ADPP Vocational School Bissorã agriculture training. After six months, I felt equipped to support my community Gã-Mamudo, in reducing agriculture losses, as I have learned different processing methods like...
Dalanda Sidibe Nhabali
ADPP Vocational School Bissorã
I graduated from the Teacher Training College DNS Bachil and started working as a teacher in 2021. I am a creative teacher and another kind of teacher, and I have supported the purchase of school materials for the students in my class. My rural community is about 12 kilometres from the city of Bula. I implemented a micro-project to build an oven...
Meta Sanhá
Teacher Training College DNS-Bachil

Agriculture and environment

In 2023, the community selected me as vice-president of the Association Nafa. From that moment, I became a key figure in the association, supporting and collaborating with club members to give feedback on the four components of Agroecology, Social leadership, Transformation and the Conservation of agricultural and horticultural What made a...
Aua Suleimane Indjai
Farmars' Clubs Quinara
At the Teacher Training College DNS-Bachil, we, teachers, students and the management team prepared the school garden. The field was provided by the community Régulo de Bachil for the cultivation and production of peanuts and beans. We produced 547 kg of peanuts that supplied and enriched the school menu. Furthermore, it encourages future...
Oceano Sanha Tchongo
Teacher Training College DNS-Bachil
Significantly impacted our production and economy. NTCHULA community club became a member of the Farmers’ Clubs and made us a well-organised 50-member club. We received training on various topics and the project installed a solar system, a borehole, and fencing. I, Same Sambe, am the president of the NTCHULA community club. Previously, we...
Same Sambe
Farmers' Club in Oio and Cacheu

Health

Support people on treatment In 2024, the TCE & TB project was expanded to the whole country with a complex package of activities, such as the distribution of nutritional kits to patients with TB and multi-resistant TB in the intensive phase of treatment. First, we did a national survey of all the health facilities treating TB patients. The...
Braima Marena
Global Fund Project
In the beginning, we only did formal epidemiological surveillance. If you imagine an iceberg, there's a part that's outside the water and a part that's inside. The part that's inside is bigger than the part that's outside. Formal epidemiological surveillance is only the part that is outside. That part of the iceberg that is bigger concerns people who...
Laura Fernandez
World Café Session in Guinea Bissau
Guinea-Bissau faces a high prevalence of TB (tuberculosis), but our community works to improve access to treatment. The people we reach have few resources, and TB is felt in our communities. In the SAFE SPACE Project, activists are screening and doing rapid tests in remote communities (hard-to-reach places), helping to ensure that those who need...
Vanessa Naianca Ferreira Correia
SAFE SSPACE Project

Economy and entrepreneurship

Providing good quality 2nd hand clothes is essential for the people in Guinea Bissau. I am selling 2nd hand clothes, and I started to sell second-hand clothes with the help of acquaintances - they would buy, and I would choose some pieces to resell where I made a profit. Today, I created a business. I managed to marry, I've bought a farm to raise sheep...
Mamado Ierro Cande
ADPP Clothes & Shoes
I am working in the 2nd hand clothes as a machinist pressing the clothes to small bales and taking care of the equipment. This job has had a big impact on my life. After starting with ADPP Clothing, I started getting paid every month, and it helped me to plan my daily and monthly expenses. Now, I'm in a position to support my niece's and son's...
Nuno Alfa Ié
ADPP Clothes & Shoes
I believe in the power of opportunities and the capacity for personal growth through challenges. I am an entrepreneur and the founder of DAMAIA, a company dedicated to the transformation and processing of fruits, soaps, and medicinal creams. In 2012, I started to work in ADPP-GB Farmers Clubs in the area of commerce and later as an administrator. The...
Dalanda So
Entrepreneurship has transformed my life, and given me resilience and an innovative spirit