The reality we found
Learning was far away
Children aged three to five walked a long and dangerous route every day to reach the children’s center. For many families, this was the only way to begin their children’s education.
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A new story begins here
School
Criança Feliz
Tchihingui Campus: a new space for education, care, and opportunity for the community’s children.
View opening details30/07opening in 2026
10h00ceremony time
Tchihinguicommunity served
Special invitation
Opening of the Tchihingui Campus
A celebration marking the beginning of a new chapter for the community’s children and families.
DateJuly 30, 2026
Time10h00
LocationTchihingui Community
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How it all began
When school is close, the future is too
The new Criança Feliz School grew from a question shaped together with the community: how can we create a different future for the next generations?
Six years ago, children as young as three to five walked up to 6 kilometers a day to reach the children’s center, facing a steep and dangerous descent, often without an adult.
The Criança Feliz Social Complex brought early childhood education closer. But as the children grew, many began walking up to 14 kilometers to continue their education. Some gave up; others persevered despite exhaustion and hardship. The new school was created to change that reality.
A response built step by step
From early childhood to continued education
The project grew alongside the children, responding to the challenges that arose at each new stage of their education.
The first response
The Social Complex is born
The Criança Feliz Social Complex was built in the heart of the community. Its Children’s Center created a safe, welcoming environment close to home where children could begin school.
A new challenge
The children grew
After the Children’s Center, continuing school could require a walk of up to 14 kilometers. Distance, exhaustion, and hardship caused some children to leave education behind.
The next transformation
A school that helps children stay
The new Criança Feliz School extends the path begun by the Children’s Center, giving more students the conditions to learn, progress, and build their future within their own community.
Education that reaches the whole communityWhy this school is needed
Breaking distance and cycles
In the surrounding communities, an estimated 90% of the population — children, young people, and adults — still lacks adequate access to literacy education.
The school was designed so children can replace long walks with hours of learning, while people of all ages find new opportunities close to home.
“This school is more than a building. It is an opportunity for an entire community to write a new story.”
Official sponsor
Fundação BAI
Official partner in making the Criança Feliz School — Tchihingui Campus possible.
The transformation has already begun
Education for all ages
Even before the official opening, more than 200 children, teenagers, and adults are already participating in Literacy and Accelerated Learning programs.
Close to home
Less time on long journeys and more time learning safely.
Literacy
The opportunity to write one’s own name, read a prescription, and understand a contract.
Accelerated learning
Support to regain opportunities and continue in school.
Stronger families
Literate adults can help their children with schoolwork and participate more independently in community life.
Far beyond the classroom
A transformation spanning generations
Every literate person represents a stronger family. For an adult, learning to read and write can mean signing their own name, understanding a prescription, interpreting a contract, and helping their children with schoolwork.
For children, studying close to home means greater safety, attendance, energy to learn, and a real chance to stay in school. For the community, it means reducing inequality and creating new opportunities for health, development, and prosperity.
Education changes more than an individual path: it enables parents, children, and the whole community to help build a shared future.
A collective achievement
Partnerships that turn a dream into reality
The new Criança Feliz School brings together the community, civil society, and public authorities around a shared commitment: expanding access to education and creating opportunities for entire generations.
Humpata Municipal Administration — local coordination with the community.
Huíla Provincial Government — institutional partnership to strengthen the project.
Ministry of Education — providing teachers to join the team.
Fundação BAI — official sponsor of the new campus.
Be part of this new chapter
Help build opportunities
Even after the opening, the project’s continuity will depend on people and organizations committed to education.
Contact us to learn how to support the activities of the new campus.
Talk to our teamOfficial channels
Contact Criança Feliz Angola
To confirm opening information or learn how to support us, always use our official channels.
+55 31 99633-3279 on WhatsApp or apadrinhamento@criancafelizangola.org.