A Difficult Childhood Dalton Da Silva was forced to grow up quickly. As a young boy, his parents separated. His mom and baby sister moved out, and they had no one to care for them. Concerned for their survival, Dalton gathered dried grass and carefully tied it together to make traditional sweeping brooms. He sold […]
Monthly Archives: March 2025
Graduate Stories, Welding
From Students to to Business Owners: How Learning Welding Transformed Ivanildo and Vanov’s Future
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What happens when someone living in poverty is given the chance to learn a new job skill? Just ask Ivanildo and Vanov. They met last year while studying welding in the same class at a WAVS vocational school in Guinea-Bissau, a tiny country in West Africa. They discovered that they worked well together. In fact, […]
