“ENGENHO E OBRA – Associação para o Desenvolvimento e Cooperação” is a Non-Governmental Organization for Development (NGOD), which emerged from the civil society. It is also a private law association and a non-profit institution.
Its goals are:

• To conceive, to implement and to give support to cooperation for development programmes and projects (for example: human assistance, promotion and protection of human rights);
• To intervene in the areas of education, training, employment and culture; 
•  To give scientific and technical support; 
•  To promote rural development and the protection and defence of the environment; 
•  To act as a transmitter of education for development.

In one simple sentence: it wants to promote and to improve the populations’ life conditions.
Finally, the institution wants to foment, to divulge and to disseminate the Portuguese Language through the world.