Projects

Education

Culture project in Bissau
We can learn from the past to plan the future. Change is one of the most important traditions of human culture and “Culture for Change” is a sound educational principle. Culture can create growth, confront social challenges and prepare the ground for economic development. Thus, Creative Economy also contributes to fight poverty. The Culture...
Primary school in Bissora
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
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...
The ADPP Vocational School, Bissorã
The ADPP Vocational School, Bissorã operates as a boarding school to optimize training time, welcome young people from all over the country and provide personal and socially comprehensive training to include all.  The courses have evolved over the years to suit the changing environment to cope with the fundamental change in demands which is taking...
The ADPP-GB Teacher Training College in Cacheu
The establishment and operation of this Teacher Training College is based on a memorandum of understanding signed with the Ministry of National Education. Until now more than 243 teachers have graduated, most of them contracted by the Ministry of National Education to work in public schools. The ADPP-GB Teacher Training College in Cacheu aims to...
The preschool on the Teacher Training College, Cacheu premises
In 2016, a preschool initiated its operation at the Teacher Training College, organized and paid through contributions from the parents. During 2022, 24 children were enrolled in the preschool.  Of the 16 children, 16 were female and 8 are male; they are from 3 to 5 years old, and when reaching six years old, they start primary school. One...

Agriculture and environment

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

 

Agriculture and Environment in Oio and Cacheu
The Farmers’ Clubs in Oio and Cacheu started in 2020 and will end in August 2024. 2000 farmers are organised into 40 Farmers' Clubs. The primary goal is to secure food and nutrition for the families and process the surplus for sales. Over the years the Farmers’ Clubs have increased their production of vegetables and their understanding of why it is important...
Agriculture and Environment in Quinara
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...
Farmers Clubs Cashew processing
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,...
Farmers Clubs Fishery, Blue Economy
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...
Farmers Clubs in Sormon & Binhome
Other part of the Farmers’ Clubs project is implemented in Sormone and Binhomi communities, where activities started in 2018 and will continue to the end of July 2023. 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...
Farmers’ Clubs
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.

 

Child Aid sanitation
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...
Health Action
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...
Health mobilization
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...
TCE Guinea Bissau
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...
TCE/TB program
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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