Projects

Small-scale farmers have cashews as their cash crop.

The cashew apples can be used as fresh fruit, juice or jam.

The nuts are often sold raw through middlemen, which limits the farmer’s income.

ADPP-GB established the Cashew Plantations in the eighties, and in recent years hired it out in plots of 4,15 to 147 farmers who are earning a surplus while paying a fee to ADPP-GB.

A 7-person plantation team operated throughout 2024 to secure and improve the value of the asset, which the plantation represents.

In 2024, the farmers produced 200 tons of raw cashew nuts. Most farmers delivered the cashew nuts to the cashew-processing centre owned and operated by ACACB (Associação de Clubes de Agricultores Comercial de Bissorã).

Around 60% of the production is processed and sold to Naturkost Ernest Weber in Germany, and the other 40% is sold on the local market.

The factory is working on getting more local customers and securing production in 2025.

200

Tons of raw cashew nuts

ADPP-GB started Fundraising through 2nd Hand Clothes & Shoes in 1988 for emergencies and some sales to generate a small income for the project implementation in Guinea-Bissau.

2nd Hand Clothes & Shoes Project supports development at various levels by providing income for many people, from personnel involved in sales and administration down to the traders. This directly affects the families, who can afford to send their children to school and generally improve their living conditions.

2nd Hand Clothes & Shoes Project supports the essential goods for people. The availability of clothes and shoes at reasonable prices allows people to dress with dignity without placing heavy demands on the household budget. Secondly, the 2nd Hand Clothes & Shoes trade has created a workplace and gives opportunities for youth.

2nd Hand Clothes & Shoes sale is fundamental in our program bouquet, both for the economy and for environmental protection and sustainability on a global level.

The clothes are sold in big and small bales. Creating the sorting centre in 2020, the clothes are sorted into 145 categories in bales from 15kg, 22,5kg or 45kg, which facilitates the vendor's needs.

The 2nd Hand Clothes & Shoes Project employs 37 people in sorting and sales. Furthermore, 190 vendors are buying the clothes & shoes in one of the four outlets and reselling them at the market.

In 2024, 2nd Hand Clothes & Shoes donated cleaning materials to the agency in the port and donated 502 kgs to social solidarity.

The project is operated according to the General Agreement with the Government of GuineaBissau.

Since 2020, the 2nd Hand Clothes & Shoes Project has sorted the clothes into categories.

This was convenient to the vendors as they got the quality and supply of what they needed in their business.

693

Tons were sold

549

Tons were sorted into small bales

Being in one of the poorest countries in the world, people in Guinea-Bissau need to be highly entrepreneurial.

ADPP-GB methodologies and services support groups and individuals in acquiring the understanding and skills to do a successful business.

Entrepreneurship training is included in the ADPP Vocational School, Bissorã, Teacher Training College DNS-Bachil, and the Farmers’ Clubs program, supporting groups and individuals in acquiring understanding and entrepreneurship skills.

WACOMP Idea Centre has supported the entrepreneurship office at the Vocational School, where youths are supported to create or apply for jobs. In 2024, 324 people and organisations were trained in entrepreneurship: 67 students trained for six months; 94 young people trained for 15 days; 87 cooperation’s and associations in Oio and Biombo were trained for 15 days.

In addition, 76 students who graduated from the ADPP Vocational School Bissorã had entrepreneurship training.

The Farmers’ Clubs programs have two purposes: securing the family's food and a better economy, including entrepreneurship training and processing, which empower women to be economically sustainable.
In 2024, 133 farmers were trained for 15 days from the regions Gabu, Bafata and Quinara.

The Entrepreneurship team has followed and supported the new businesses established: five cooperation in chicken production, one as a tailor, and two as hairdressers.

Supported by:

African Development Bank, the European Union, ECOWAS/- GIZ/Swiss Aid, Humana People to People Partners and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development of Guinea-Bissau.
324 Trained.

324 Trained.