We are, once again, delighted to launch our annual report. It is always a pleasure to be able to share the results of the hard work of staff, volunteers and everyone involved in the many projects implemented by ADPP Angola.
2020 will forever be associated with the Covid-19 pandemic, but it will also be celebrated as a year when people to people efforts shone through a most difficult time and when the extra mile brought hope and positive outcomes for thousands of people.
As part of the Integrated Development Project in Huíla and Namibe, ADPP is organising and training farmers in 29 Farmer's Field Schools in Gambos and Bibala. New boreholes have increased access to water in many of the communities, and drip irrigation systems have opened new possibliities for producing vegetables. The season has also been extended since the farmers are no longer dependent on rainwater.
Despite the COVID-10 pandemic, it is vital that production continues so families have food to eat, can produce for sale, and that they continue learning new environmentally-friendly techniques which they can adopt in their own fields. Project staff have been working to help farmers continue to work in accordance with the rules.
A Farmer Field School Member In Bibala Showing A Cane Sugar Plantation - Something New For The Area
Members Of Kamupapa Chacham Farmer Field School Maintaining Social Distancing While Watering And Weeding Beds Of Tomato Plants
President Of the Kamupapa Field School Pleased With The Papaya Production And Production In General
Kamupapa Field School Transplanting Tomatoes And Covering The Soil While Maintaining Distancing
Members Of Mphatelo Farmers Field School Planting Seeds In The Nursery
Calapunda Field Schools Members Meeting And Keeping Social Distancing Rules
Patelo Field School in Bibala Have Their Beds Ready For Planting
Mangueiras Field School Is Expanding Production With Beds Ready For Tomatoes, Kale and Cabbage
Mangueiras Mangueiras Field School Nursery And Beds With Tomato Plants
Mangueiras Field School Cassava Production
Mangueiras Field School Nursery With Kale.
A Farmer Field School Member In Bibala Showing A Cane Sugar Plantation - Something New For The Area
Members Of Kamupapa Chacham Farmer Field School Maintaining Social Distancing While Watering And Weeding Beds Of Tomato Plants
President Of the Kamupapa Field School Pleased With The Papaya Production And Production In General
Kamupapa Field School Transplanting Tomatoes And Covering The Soil While Maintaining Distancing
Members Of Mphatelo Farmers Field School Planting Seeds In The Nursery
Calapunda Field Schools Members Meeting And Keeping Social Distancing Rules
Patelo Field School in Bibala Have Their Beds Ready For Planting
Mangueiras Field School Is Expanding Production With Beds Ready For Tomatoes, Kale and Cabbage
Mangueiras Mangueiras Field School Nursery And Beds With Tomato Plants
Work continues in the project to promote social development in fishing communities. Project staff and locally recruited activists are working to mobilize communities about COVID-19 and to pass on key messages about hand hygiene and social distancing. Simultaneously, staff are working with participants to strengthen their resilience. Introducing horticulture is one way of improving food security and perhaps even producing a surplus for sale. See images from Luanda and Cuanza-Norte below.
Locally recruited and trained health activists in Luanda meeting to prepare COVID-19 prevention activities
Planning Sessions also focused on how to continue project activities
The project helped families create their own Tippy Tap handwashing systems
In Cuanza-Norte, the project's health activists have been mobilizing communities about Covid-19 and helping distribute water to families in Cazanga
In Luanda, project participants are preparing ground to start horticulture, to improve their diets and create surplus for sale
Young Fisherman Gathering Sheaves Of Grass For The Roof Of The Jango At The Landing Jetty
All five "Women in Action" projects (Cabinda, Bengeula, Cazenga, Estalagem, Zango) have changed gears and are producing face masks, some for sale and some to distribute in local communities and to specially vulnerable groups. In Zango, and in partnership with the company CONTRAVEN, the women have sewn masks which are being distributed in the community.
