We develop humanitarian projects in Guinea-Bissau, on the island of Soga we provide support in health, education and sustainability! The island of Soga needs us! 4 missionaries will go to the island in August to continue the project!
The SOGA association is born of a group of believing volunteers in the possibility of giving the inhabitants of the island of Soga a more dignified standard of living. The main fields of intervention are: education, health, water and food. The island receives our volunteers once or twice a year, and these, in cooperation with the population, diagnose shortages, evaluate them and find the most feasible solutions.
Some of the projects under development by the Association:
1. Kindergarten - The building is completed. We have a kindergarten teacher trained through one of our scholarships. We are working on the educational project to open nursery even in 2017.
Construção do Jardim de Infância
2. Container - With some ease we can arrange donations such as equipment for the health center, kindergarten and school, medicines, bicycles, used computers, clothes etc. We recently managed to fund a container through a collaboration protocol with the CPLP Union Exporters.
3. Cashew shelling machine - Creation of a cooperative and marketing of cashew on the island of Soga. Acquisition of a cashew shelling machine, training in the areas of production / shelling and commercialization of cashew. In order to monetize the large cashew production on the island in favor of the Association's humanitarian projects on the island of SOGA.
4. Boat - Every year people die in Noose, especially in the risky pregnancy situation, for lack of emergency boat. Through a partnership we have already got a boat, we will take the Boat-ambulance in August.
5. Vocational training - The objective is to make the island of Soga autonomous, a process of many years that has to go through the professional training and establishment of small cooperatives of the inhabitants of the island, as well as a professional workshop.
6. Sanitation - Basic sanitation is almost non-existent on Soga Island. Our collaborators on the island of Soga were formed in the construction of latrines, still in 2017 we want to implement basic sanitation in all the districts of the five villages of the island.
7. Water - There is no drinking water on the island. An adequate solution is under study and will go beyond the possibility of disinfecting existing wells (with chemically improper waters) by rainwater filtration systems. An intermediate step may be the acquisition of filters.
Os poços que contêm agua imprópria para consumo
