WAVS School employees Matheus and Lili worked on the vehicle for the Director of Regional Medical Center to help prepare their community for COVID-19. 

The WAVS School staff asked the local hospital how they could help prepare their community for COVID-19. The hospital’s leadership asked them to drive around town and share public service announcements about social distancing and practicing good hygiene. So School Director Lili Mane, left, made an audio recording and drove around town each day, playing the public announcements and talking with community members about COVID-19.

This is the only ambulance in Canchungo. WAVS School staff volunteered their time and resources to fix the ambulance for the Canchungo Hospital as part of the preparation for COVID-19.

On February 14 in the capital of Guinea-Bissau, WAVS hosted a grant signing ceremony marking the start of a partnership between WAVS and the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In attendance were the Japanese ambassador to Senegal and Guinea-Bissau, the Guinea-Bissau minister of education, and members of WAVS local and international team.

WAVS Executive Director Chris Collins visited Guinea-Bissau in February and attended a grant signing ceremony with the Ambassador of Japan to Guinea-Bissau. The Japanese government’s grant will help pay for more than half of the first classroom building on the new WAVS campus in Bissau, the capital city. WAVS donors have helped fund the remaining cost of the building.

Lili Mane, the director of the WAVS School in Canchungo, was a guest lecturer at a three-day training for entrepreneurs. The participants gained so much from the advice Lili shared that they asked him to come back to speak the following day!

Matheus, the Head of Security for the WAVS School Canchungo campus, was among the graduates this past January. He received a diploma in computer basics.

A team of visitors from The Well Community Church in Fresno, California attended the WAVS School graduation in Canchguno. They are pictured here along with some of the guest speakers at the graduation.

In his spare time, the director of the WAVS School campus in Gabu helps a team of people translate the Bible into Fula, an ethnic language. So far, they’ve been working on the project for nine years.

Batteries for the solar power system at the WAVS School Canchungo campus were ordered back in December and have now arrived at the school! Solar is what powers the school and the staff is excited to install these new batteries.

Kalu, a WAVS employee in Bissau, was married in January! Congratulations to Kalu and his wife.