Established in 1992 through the combined effort of development professionals and individuals wanting to get involved in international solidarity or humanitarian aid initiatives, ESSOR is a non-governmental organization (NGO) that carries out development projects in Portuguese-speaking and French-speaking countries : Brazil, Cap Verde, Guinea Bissau, and Moçambique.
We direct our actions according to the basic needs of the communities we seek to help. Our initiatives extend across a range of fields: education, professional training and employment access, AIDS prevention, preventive health and social counselling, agricultural support, delinquency prevention, housing sanitation and improvement, and training for institutional and community stakeholders.