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 place in Guinea-Bissau.
In 2023 the courses were Agriculture & Husbandry, Construction, Solar Energy, Electricity, Water pump installation/Maintenance & Plumbing, Entrepreneurship, Agrobusiness, Basic Informatic.
The training with theory and practice is highly valued and enables the students to test their newly gained skills through planning and implementing community initiatives that improve the living conditions of people.
In the Farmers’ Clubs Horticulture project, 2 youths have been selected from 30 communities for training in horticulture and nutrition. The 60 students were trained for 6 months at the Vocational School followed by 1 year of community training which ended in 2023 and which will support the sustainability of the project.
Capacity training of staff and improving the physical environment was provided by cooperation with ENABEL.
The Vocational School continues to encourage women to enrol in the courses, during 2023, 40% of the 156 students were women, which is a good development.
ADPP-GB highly regards the contributions from the European Union in Guinea-Bissau, the African Development Bank, ADPP Counter Part Fund, ENABEL, Humana People to People partners and the Ministry of National Education of Guinea-Bissau.
