Welcome to our newsletter with updates the past month from projects covering education, health, agriculture & environment, and integrated community development. 

The STEM team, consisting of teachers from four teacher training schools in Luanda are looking forward to a well-deserved holiday after completing training, tests, experiments and production of the new manual for Module 3. All are aware of the responsibilities that lie ahead in the implementation of these experiences for students, pupils and teachers at participating schools in the academic year 2022/2023. Long live STEM Angola!

Teachers & students at all our schools spent a week doing maintenance, making repairs and generally improving the physical environment at their place of study during the month of July. Everyone benefits from these actions, that ensure optimum conditions for learning, provide an opportunity for gaining new skills, and promote team work to achieve goals. Students take these skills with them wherever they go. During teaching practice, they organise maintenance and even construction tasks at primary schools and in rural communities.

Admission tests are taking place at all our schools for the school year starting in September. The tests are rigorous, in compliance with Ministry of Education directives. Here at TTS ADPP Uíge there were 130 candidates seeking one of the 70 places on the next team at the school.

A trio of students at the our Polytechnic in Benguela demonstrated their knowledge of their chosen profession and the results of their 9th Grade practical exam task at a Practical Aptitude Test in the presence of a jury, partners and family members. All 9th Graders at our polytechnics conclude their 3-year training with these oral exams.

The Global Vax project is supporting the national Covid-19 vaccination campaign which aims to ensure at least 70% of the population is vaccinated. ADPP is taking part in the project in Luanda, Bengo, Bié and Cuando Cubango. During July, we visited all project areas and signed agreements with the four provincial and 12 municipal departments of health. Planning, recruitment and training is taking pace with the authorities to increase the capacity to reach rural communities with mobile teams.

Ndumbi, Kipunda, Piloto 1 and Piloto 2 are four neighbouring women's farmers’ clubs in Cuaza Sul. The club committees and leaders organised visits to the different clubs to exchange experiences and learn from one another. The first visit was to the vegetable gardens of Piloto 1 & 2, followed by a visit to Ndumbi and Kipunda, after which the committee members discussed the conclusions drawn from their experiences.

Our Polytechnics have been working on the production and promotion of efficient charcoal stoves and briquettes made from charcoal waste. At the Polytechnic Zango, senior members of ASO Angola (Seeding Opportunities Association), people from El Betel centre for vulnerable youth, and the Director of Social Action in Zango, Mrs Aida António, attended a training session on briquette production and a talk on forest conservation. The Polytechnic Caxito invited a radio station to join a group promoting and selling briquettes at Bengo Provincial Market. This was an excellent way of publicizing the objectives of the project and the importance of briquettes.

In Quilemba, Bibala municipality in Huíla, it took just a week to check the water system and carry out the necessary maintenance for the community be able to enjoy treated drinking water. A Water & Sanitation group was created, and there was all round satisfaction that Quilemba forms part of the Integrated Community Project in Huíla and Namibe. Water, energy and health are among the areas where people here have seen improvements.

Ever more components are coming together to achieve the economic and environmental goals of the Integrated Community Project in Huíla and Namibe. In Bibala, training began on the manufacture of improved charcoal stoves known as IKO stoves. They burn more cleanly and use less charcoal than traditional stoves. Widespread use of these efficient stoves will lead to fewer trees being felled to make charcoal, and will generally contribute to helping reach climate change reduction targets. Importantly, they also reduce the burden of wood collection for women and girls, and are better for health as they produce less smoke.

In the project Communities in Action for Peace and Inclusion in Benguela, the leaders of the Community Action Groups and Youth Clubs in Tumbilo community, Cubal municipality, thought it would be a good idea to gather everyone to discuss domestic violence and how to prevent it. They spoke not only of husbands beating wives but also of fathers hitting their children. 72 people participated. 

Golden Threads, a clothes and design company in Lubango, is partnering the Integrated Development project’s sewing course in Bibala. The 48 women on the course can visit the clothes factory whenever they wish and may spend 3 three months in work practice on completion of their training. This is a great opportunity for the women to break new ground and learn new lines of work as well as the latest in technology. Participants on the dressmaking course are already noting the fruits of their labour and of their new skills. The sewing centre itself has been attracting a lot of attention through the variety and quality of clothes being produced, from trousers, shirts and sweaters, to bread bags, pillows and caps, dresses and skirts, Bubús and aprons. There is great outside interest in buying these items, and a number of participants are already earning money through selling what they produce.

Thank you to all the partners who support our activities.

VISION
ADPP seeks to support people in developing the vision and capacity to contribute to development, for themselves, their communities, and the nation.

MISSION

• To promote solidarity between people
• To promote the economic and social development of Angola
• To promote a better life for the underprivileged and those most in need

ADPP (Ajuda de Desenvolivmento de Povo para Povo) stands for Development Aid from People to People. ADPP Angola works in the fields of education, health, agriculture and environment, and integrated community development.