Projects

Education

Culture isn't just about looking back at history to preserve what we have; it's also about looking to the future. We can learn from the past to plan for the future.  Culture project in Bissau The Culture programs build on the previous culture project implemented by ADPP-GB from 2016 to 2020. Community centres, led by local associations, with...
Preschool education started in Bissora in 1990 and, by 2009, expanded to more than 31 communities in the Bissora and Mansaba Sector, Oio Region. In these preschools, 33 teachers/facilitators taught 2.125 children. From the 2005/2006 school year, the Child Aid Project started the Primary School in Bissora, teaching 1st to 4th grade. The objective...
The ADPP Teacher Training College, Bachil cooperates with the Ministry of Higher Education and Science Research to educate excellent teachers for the children and youths of the 21st Century. In addition, the students train to be committed to work in rural areas with a high lack of teachers. As a result, 243 graduated teachers contributed to a...
Created in 1997, the ADPP-GB Vocational School of Bissorã aims to allow youth to create their future with technical, management, entrepreneurship and human capacities urgently needed to create sustainable development of Guinea-Bissau and, through this, contribute to reducing poverty. 2,681 youth have been given the possibility to train themselves...
Early education lays the foundation for future learning and growth. In November 2016, the Preschool Caberná initiated its operation at the Teacher Training College DNS-Bachil, and is currently being organised and paid for by parents’ contributions. The establishment of the preschool was an opportunity that arose due to the financial support of...
The Teacher Training College in Bachil was created in 2011 as a pilot project, based on a Memorandum of Understanding signed in 2008 with the Ministry of Education of Guinea-Bissau to establish Teacher Training Colleges operated by ADPP-GB to train primary school teachers with a modern profile and amble capacities - a need long overdue and...

Agriculture and environment

ADPP-GB aims to empower small-scale farmers by increasing their knowledge and capacity to fight off Climate Change.

 

Farmers in Guinea-Bissau need to develop resilience. They must work together to be able to handle the unexpected. The Farmers’ Clubs in Oio and Cacheu started in 2020 and ended in August 2024. The project, including 2.000 farmers organised in 40 Farmers’ Clubs in Oio & Cacheu, started in 2020 and ended in August 2024 with the celebration of the...
In Quinara Region a new three-year program started in June 2023 to support 23 clubs, 1.311 youth and women farmers in production and entrepreneurship. After a baseline survey, a selection of 23 communities and 23 leaders took place. A Memorandum between Swiss-Aid and the communities was signed. The communities committed themselves and started to...
The Farmers' Clubs Processing centre is a bio-certified nuts-for-sale factory.  After the Project (Financed by the European Union in Guinea Bissau) ended in 2019, a cooperation was established between ADPP-GB, ACACB (the factory) and company Naturkost Ernest Weber to support the processing. The project has an established cashew factory, storage,...
The current project carries out its activities in 10 communities in Cacheu, focusing on the fishery, increasing production and nutrition, and introducing local processing and marketing techniques in an organised manner.  The project will, in cooperation with the fishery associations, find ways to get cheaper equipment to the fishermen and improve...
Other part of the Farmers’ Clubs project is implemented in Sormone and Binhomi communities, where activities started in 2018 to 2024. The communities in Binhomi will increase the rice production, and in Sormone they will strengthen the horticulture production combined with the mobilisation of women groups to process and boost the economy of the...
Where farmers identify the challenges they face and work together as a team Each Farmers’ Club has 50 members, men and women, who jointly make decisions and take action. Clubs can be informal or formally registered and they also have opportunities to create co-operatives or join other farmers’ organisations. This means they can benefit from...

Health

Currently, health is not just the absence of disease.

 

Currently, the Child Aid Guinea-Bissau – Water, Energy and Sanitation project was implemented through the project funded by TESE and the European Union. The project was implemented in villages in Oio Region and villages in Bafata Region, with an estimated population of 65.000 inhabitants.  The project in 2022 worked closely with the Directorate...
ADPP-GB has worked in the health area since 2011 to reduce sexually transmitted diseases in cooperation with the Ministry of Health, organisations and contributing partners. The Health Action will increase knowledge about sexual reproductive health, Family Planning, Harmful Practices, Sexually transmitted diseases and Gender Violence.  The Health...
It is heart breaking to lose any family member to a communicable disease. It is needed to give the next generation community knowledge, awareness and capability as the first line of defence and to move towards healthy living. ADPP-GB is involved in promoting general health and mobilising youth to be active in communities to raise awareness about the...
The TCE Guinea-Bissau program is a unique four-year program that started in October 2018 and will end in September 2022. It is divided into four phases (years). The first phase(year)was carried out in Bissau and it still continues until the end of the program. The second-year saw an expansion of the program to other regions such as Oio (Mansoa...
In 2020 ADPP-GB submitted through the Ministry of Health proposals for Global Fund round 2021-23 in Malaria and HIV/AIDS/TB. In February 2021 ADPP signed an agreement with the Ministry of Health for the HIV/AIDS/TB component. Ministry of Health is the principal recipient of the Global Fund for the HIV/AIDS – TB project, and ADPP-GB is one of...

Economy and entrepreneurship

ADPP-GB Fundraising, 2nd Hand Clothes & Shoes sales in Guinea-Bissau

The objective of this project, which started in 1986, is to generate funds to contribute to the financing of ADPP-GB development projects in Guinea-Bissau by importing and selling 2nd hand clothes and shoes in the country. At the same time it contributes to sustainable consumption in the world by reuse of the natural resources (SDG 12) and contributes to ensure that the majority of people in Guinea-Bissau has the possibility to buy good quality second hand clothes at affordable prices.

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