Because of your generosity, WAVS vocational schools equip hundreds of young men and women with life-changing job skills every year, all while sharing God’s love through word and deed. Thank you!
But not everything we do happens in a classroom (or a workshop). Your giving also helps build healthy teams, funds student graduations, and supports students after they graduate. Every gift you make helps fulfill a vision for a world where we all thrive — in life, in work, and our relationship with our Creator.
Your year-end gift will help raise the $40,000 needed to support this vision for WAVS students and staff in 2024.
How will my gift be used?
The impact of your gift
Build Community
Relationships are the cornerstone of work. We invest in our teachers so that they can invest in their students. Your year-end gift will help WAVS purchase Christmas presents for staff, fund an annual team retreat, and host three teacher training workshops per year.
Give Opportunity
When students graduate, it’s just the beginning of their journey. WAVS vocational schools walk alongside our graduates to help them succeed in life. For example, through the New Entrepreneurs Program, WAVS provides students with starter kits at a discounted price so they can use their new skills starting on day one.
Give Opportunity
Celebrate Successes
Many WAVS students have to make sacrifices to attend the vocational schools, including walking several miles each way to school, every day. To celebrate their accomplishments, WAVS hosts a small student celebration at the end of each 4-month term and also hosts an annual graduation ceremony.
How your gift will be used
Christmas Gift for Staff
($25 per gift)
Help fund an annual Christmas party and purchase a small Christmas gift for hard-working WAVS teachers and administrators.
Welding Intern Stipend
($50)
Welding interns receive a stipend each month to help with transportation costs. Help cover the monthly stipend for two interns.
Student Celebration
($100 per celebration)
Every four months, students gather for a small celebration to mark the end of each term.
Starter Tool Kit
($250 per starter kit)
Help subsidize the cost of a starter tool kit for a new graduate.
Graduation
($500)
Help fund the first-ever graduation ceremony at the Bissau campus, which will be held in early 2024 to celebrate our dedicated students.
Staff Training & Retreat
($1,000 per event)
Help fund the annual off-site staff retreat or one of the three teacher training workshops scheduled for 2024.
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Staff and teachers on their annual retreat. The retreat provides a time for the team to deepen relationships and build community.
Staff training days are held several times each year to equip the staff with new teaching methods so that they can grow in their own skills and even better equip the students. The days are also important for team building.
Fridays are team lunch days at the office! Staff spend time eating together and playing team building games.
Graduations are a time to celebrate the accomplishments of students who have completed all of the classes for a course. Graduations are attended by students, staff, teachers, friends, family and often local officials and media.
Former welding intern, Mussa Demba (left), with the NEP tool kit he received.
The NEP (New Entrepreneur Program) kits contain supplies to help welders start up a small workshop. NEP kits are awarded to welding interns at the end of their program. These interns are selected for their outstanding performance as students and receive an additional year of training and hands-on practice.
Each Christmas the staff and teachers at the WAVS schools are given a Christmas gift of groceries. These groceries enable them to have a Christmas gathering for their friends and family.
