 In 1982, he received a training scholarship to the Soviet Union, where he graduated in civil and industrial engineering from the Odessa National Polytechnic University (1988).In Odessa, she is a member of the Guinea-Bissau student association.In 1988, after 2 months in Bissau as an engineer at the Ministry of Public Works, he left for Cacheu to work at Cooperativa Unidade e Progresso (CUP), one of the largest construction companies at the time.