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Welcome to our newsletter with updates the past month from projects covering education, health, agriculture & environment, and integrated community development.
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In celebration of women’s month, this issue of the newsletter highlights work done by women project leaders, project participants, students and community members. Their efforts are meaningful and valued 365 days a year.
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| Professional seamstresses |
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More than 2,000 women have graduated from Women in Action sewing and business skills courses since 2018. Group 5 in Estalagem in Luanda received their certificates at a graduation ceremony this month, as did participants in Cazenga and Zango, also in Luanda, and in the province of Benguela. Many are now running their own clothes-making enterprises.
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| Role models |
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Celebrating 25 years of ADPP teacher training is the perfect opportunity to celebrate women’s achievements. Judge Delfina Almeida, a member of the first ever team at the School for the Teachers of the Future in Huambo back in 1995, gave a talk about her experiences to students at the Teacher Training School ADPP - Uíge.
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Enterprise and the environment
Five enterprising women from Lufefena community joined EPP Huambo Environment Promoter students to demonstrate the manufacture of briquettes from charcoal residue.
Partners in the charcoal stoves project, Forest Development Institute, Ministry of Tourism, Culture & Environment, and UNDP, witnessed this practical measure to reduce waste, and also visited the school’s metal workshop to see the various stages of making an IKO stove.
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Encouraging women scientists, engineers and mathematicians
STEM Phase 3 at the Polytechnic School ADPP Ramiro is bringing science alive for female students, who gave a demonstration of chemical reactions, using easily available materials. Encouraging girls to study science and math at school helps double the pool of candidates for hitherto male-dominated careers.
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Communities play a key role in helping improve and sustain good health. The TB Community-DOT programme implemented by ADPP first ensures widespread knowledge on how to reduce the spread of TB, what the symptoms are, and when to seek treatment. Mentors, who are people close to someone with TB, are then trained to help the person adhere to treatment and take care of themselves, as here in Amboim, Cuanza Sul.
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Knowledge empowers
Girls and young women in Tômbwa are getting the information, knowledge and support they need to reduce the risk of contracting HIV or other STDs. Girls’ Club sessions, in relatively informal but safe surroundings, promote changes in attitude and behaviour through sexual and reproductive health sessions, while encouraging testing for HIV followed by treatment and support where necessary.
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School pupils against TB
The project Community Control of Malaria, HIV/AIDS and TB in Zaire marked World TB Day on March 24 at Soyo Municipal Police Station in Zaire Province. The teacher training school ADPP Zaire and TCE School Patrol pupils performed a theatre play at the event, attended by Soyo Municipal TB Supervisor and reported by Soyo Municipal Radio.
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Taking to the streets
Female Community Health Agents and project staff have been out in force across the country, sharing key messages on health issues, in particular TB during World TB Day commemorations on 24 March. Here in Benguela, the TB Community-DOT project held an awareness campaign at the former Camponte Market.
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Promoting partner testing
HIV testing is a delicate issue, and convincing partners to test for HIV even more so. Skill, knowledge, and dedication are required. With this in mind, ADPP and mother2mother counsellors attended refresher training with Dr. Euclides Arão Chipalavela, HIV/AIDS Focal Point in Huambo Province. Achieving partner testing will add to positive results at the project aimed at preventing mother-to-child infection.
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Strengthening health services
The project Community Control of Malaria, HIV/AIDS and TB Zaire collaborates closely with the health authorities to reinforce the impact of preventive measures and existing services. The project organised a talk at Santana Hospital in Paróquia District, aimed at pregnant mothers and children under five.
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| Agriculture & Environment |
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| Project to Support Rural Women Farmers in Cuanza Sul |
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Boa Esperançe Kijanga Club in Cuanza Sul demonstrated its capacity to be self-supporting when Quibala’s Agrarian Development Institute (IDA) visited on 17 March. The visitors saw training material, manuals and posters at the club, plate drying racks, seed banks and latrines, and the club’s model field. The club committee showed it was ready to take over full responsibility, and the club members expressed their satisfaction with their efforts.
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| Rural Women Plant the Seeds of Success! |
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The Minister of State for Social Affairs, the head of ADPP's Board of Directors, and women from the Support to Rural Women in Angola project at an event organized by USAID and the ExxonMobil Foundation. Women farmers from Cuanza Norte spoke about their gains from the project.
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| Community Resilience |
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Climate change is not selective and affects everyone, although to varying degrees. What is different is the ability of communities, regions or countries to adapt and resist. Resilience Building as Climate Change Adaptation in Drought-Stricken South-Western African Communities is a major new project, launched this month in Luanda, Windhoek, and Cuando Cubango. The project has a strong gender focus.
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| Women farmers feeding the country |
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Women farmers are multi-taskers and equally good at making their voices heard as they are at cultivating crops. Club members in Cuanza Norte took part in a provinical fair under the theme of developing rural trade, organised by the provincial government. Female Farmers club members and the female project leader also took part in a fair in Cuanza Sul.
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Active citizenship
Birth certificates, ID cards and being on the electoral register are some of the basic tools needed to participate actively as citizens in a democracy.
The Support for Women Farmers project is making sure thousands of mostly women farmers have those tools, such as these club members in Quissongo, Cuanza Sul, who have just received their ID cards.
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Sustainability through equality
Women farmers more than pull their weight in the production of food. All they require is a level playing field for them to guarantee a sustainable future.
On 8 March, in Calandula, International Women’s Day, members of Cassanda Womens Farmers Clubs attended a talk on the subject of Equality Today for a Sustainable Tomorrow. The head of Radio Calandula invited the leader of the Women’s Advocate prgramme, part of the project Support for Rural Women Farmers, to speak about how communities are dealing with this same question.
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| Integrated Community Development |
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| Integrating employment opportunities |
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Communities are building resilience through improved access to water and energy, better health care, productive farming, and quality education in the social integrated project implemented by ADPP in Gambos and Bibala. Increasing employment opportunities, currently through sewing and entrepreneurship course, has been integrated into the project for economic diversification, to keep the local economy healthy and to provide social and economic benefits for communities.
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Young women and men are participating on an equal footing in the Increasing Access to Water project ADPP is implementing in Cunene. They are gaining new skills of immediate and long-term value, and earning money at the same time. More money is circulating locally, there is a greater sense of community ownership, and women get to learn aspects of construction, the installation of solar panels, plumbing and electrical work. Here, they are finishing a water tank and preparing to install solar panels in Chipulo, Naulila, in Ombadja Municipality.
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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.
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All ADPP projects are implemented in collaboration with the government at national and local level.
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ADPP is a co-founder and member of the Federation Humana People to People
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