Help Launch 2 New Courses
Help us buy the tools and equipment we need to launch the machining and carpentry courses at the new training center.
Earlier this year, we broke ground on a brand-new 16,000-square-foot Training Center that will serve 200 students each year at our flagship campus in the capital city, Bissau. It’s scheduled to be completed by the end of this year. The Training Center will allow us to expand our welding program and launch new programs in carpentry and metalwork machining – skills that are in high demand in Guinea-Bissau’s economy.
To launch the new programs, we first need to purchase the tools and machines that students will use to learn their new job skills. If we can raise $20,000 by the end of June, we’ll be able to purchase welders, drill presses, saws and lathes in time to send them on a container before the end of this year.
And thanks to a generous donor, all gifts made by the end of June will be 100% matched until we hit the goal!
Your gift today will give young men and women in one of the world’s smallest and poorest countries the tools they need to succeed in life. Thank you!
Your gift today will help buy the tools and machines for students to learn and practice their new skills
Hand Tools
($25 each)
Purchase one of the tools each student will need for their course.
Drill Press
($100 towards a drill press)
Give toward buying one of the drill presses in the new training center.
Band Saws
($250 each)
Purchase a band saw for the new carpentry program.
Welders
($500 each)
Equip the welding workshop with welders.
Heavy Machinery
($2500)
Invest in one of the key pieces of machinery that will be used at the training center.
The amounts shown above are representative of actual costs. Your gift will be used to purchase and deliver tools and machinery for the WAVS Training Center, though the specific item purchased with your gift will be determined by the needs of the training program.
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Give students like Cirilo the tools they need to succeed in life
Cirilo was born in Guinea-Bissau, a country where most people earn less than $2 a day. As a child, he suffered from severe malaria and nearly died.
After high school, Cirilo knew he wanted something more for his family than the extreme poverty he was born into. But he was unemployed and had no job skills. He had no idea what to do next.
That’s when he heard about the WAVS vocational school’s nine-month welding course. He immediately enrolled. After Cirilo graduated from the course he opened his own welding workshop.
Today, Cirilo earns a steady income and is able to provide for his wife and young son, as well as pay his brothers’ school fees.
Cirilo has also helped others achieve the same success he’s found in life. At his workshop, he has several apprentices. He’s paid for two of them to attend the same WAVS welding course that changed his life.
Thanks to the skills he learned in the WAVS welding program, Cirilo has broken the cycle of poverty – and it’s had a ripple effect that extends far beyond just one person!
Today, you can give more young people like Cirilo the tools they need to succeed in life.
See how this new training center fits into the vision for the Bissau campus
WAVS is building a new, 28-acre campus in the heart of Guinea-Bissau that will train five times an many students as we do today. Once complete, the campus will serve more than 2,000 students each year – all while sharing God’s love through word and deed.
Thanks to your generosity, Phase 1 and the Phase 2 second classroom building are complete. Your gift today will help us open the East Workshop Building that will complete Phase 2.
Over the next seven years, WAVS will complete future phases that will include additional classroom buildings, workshops, a small café, guest house, a small hotel and a main “hub” center for the campus.
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