APDES Agência Piaget para o Desenvolvimento

Founded in 2004, the APDES Agência Piaget para o Desenvolvimento is a non-profit NGO (Non-Governmental Organization for Development) that promotes integrated development.

Its main objective is to carry out interventions aimed at improving access to health, employment and education for vulnerable communities and public, working to train institutions and individuals and to strengthen social cohesion. The organizational profile of APDES encompasses four lines of action that guide the projects developed: health, risk reduction and human rights; health education; social cohesion and labor, and cooperation and development.

All the tasks performed respond to well-designed working principles, such as research, participatory methodologies, proximity intervention, advocacy, evaluation and the transdisciplinary approach.