Adam Daniel Kiš, the new Project Director for the USAID/AWARE health project in São Tomé and Príncipe, has previously worked in Benin with Adventist Frontier Missions (student missionary), Malawi with the University of Florida (Master’s research on AIDS), and Guinea (Conakry) with ADRA (Deputy Country Director and HIV/AIDS Technical Assistant) and the University of Florida (doctoral dissertation research on AIDS). Adam received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Florida in May 2007. Adam has also taught anthropology courses as a contract teacher at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan. His wife, Kristi, grew up in Malawi for 13 years as a missionary kid; their 21-month-old son, Zachary, will be the fourth generation family member to grow up overseas while his parents work for the Seventh-day Adventist Church. “We are excited to be here in São Tomé and Príncipe and are eager to work for ADRA,” Adam writes. “We look forward to collaborating with local officials to achieve the goals of the AWARE project and to increasing the capacity of people living and working in Caué and Príncipe to serve their communities better.”
Wednesday, May 16, 2007
STP welcomes new project director
Adam Daniel Kiš, the new Project Director for the USAID/AWARE health project in São Tomé and Príncipe, has previously worked in Benin with Adventist Frontier Missions (student missionary), Malawi with the University of Florida (Master’s research on AIDS), and Guinea (Conakry) with ADRA (Deputy Country Director and HIV/AIDS Technical Assistant) and the University of Florida (doctoral dissertation research on AIDS). Adam received his Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Florida in May 2007. Adam has also taught anthropology courses as a contract teacher at Andrews University in Berrien Springs, Michigan. His wife, Kristi, grew up in Malawi for 13 years as a missionary kid; their 21-month-old son, Zachary, will be the fourth generation family member to grow up overseas while his parents work for the Seventh-day Adventist Church. “We are excited to be here in São Tomé and Príncipe and are eager to work for ADRA,” Adam writes. “We look forward to collaborating with local officials to achieve the goals of the AWARE project and to increasing the capacity of people living and working in Caué and Príncipe to serve their communities better.”
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Promoting Beans
Small farmer signing a contract and taking ownership over the intervention
“Actividade Rural” is a quarterly, high quality, glossy magazine, published since June 2004, with its main objective the promotion of the exchange of information between small farmers in the rural communities of Sao Tome and Principe. This intervention is completed by a National Radio program and provides field technical support to small farmers. This intervention is financed by ADRA Canada (http://www.adra.ca/).
The interest created in several small farmers, as a response to articles published in magazine Number 7, led ADRA to choose 3 neighbor communities to be supported (Plancas Primeira, Plancas Segunda and Santa Luzia) with around 25 Kg of been seeds. This will cover a total cultivated area of 4 hectares with a potential production of 1.5 Tones of beans. The actual price of beans is around USD 1.9 per kilogram, having an attractive potential income for the farmers involved. If this experience is well succeeded it will be enlarged in amount of support and in number of communities involved.
The most recent magazine, covering the months of April to June 2007, promotes and teaches techniques to improve the cultures of avocado and peanut; equally are promoted the use of vitamin A, the protection of the environment and apiculture. In the first quarter of 2007, 94 workshops were held and 24 communities benefited from technical expertise, over 1800 persons participated in the ADRA program during that quarter.
Worker's Day at ADRA

ADRA STP coumpound - the red circle identifies the new multipurpose space