Welcome to the Bissau campus

WAVS began construction on the first phase of the Bissau campus in 2020. Once complete, the campus will train more than 1,000 students a year. Learn more about the vision for the campus here.

Classroom Buildings
Duplex building
Bissau campus plan in West Africa

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The behind-the-scenes story of how we opened the Bissau campus

We all know it takes three things to start a fire: heat, fuel and oxygen. It also takes three things to turn a dream [...]

18
May
bissau construction with workers 3
What the Bissau campus will mean for 1,000 students each year

Opportunity builds on itself. One opportunity leads to another. Its impact is exponential. In a nearly forgotten corner of the world called Guinea-Bissau, there [...]

27
Aug
A grand from the Japanese embassy in Dakar is helping build the new WAVS campus to equip young people in Guinea-Bissau with job skills.
The new WAVS campus takes another leap forward

An American nonprofit. A government ministry in a tiny country in West Africa. A grant funded by the government of Japan. All of these [...]

17
Mar
WAVS-Bissau-Campus
A new WAVS campus. A new future.

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Sep