Angola - a long recovery from war
Angolan women clearing a field, using tools donated in the
UK via Notcutts Garden Centre.
Civil conflict has plagued Angola since independence from Portugal in
1975. Serious fighting resumed in 1998, resulting in hundreds of
thousands of displaced people. Up to 1.5 million lives may have been
lost during the last 25 years.
Our support to recovering communities in Angola includes:
- Orphaned and abandoned children receive food and shelter.
- Many thousands of street children in Angola's large towns are
receiving a daily meal.
- Older children benefit from vocational training, in trades such as
bakery, bicycle repair, tailoring and agriculture, helping them towards
independence.
- We support a tuberculosis hospital, with patients of all ages,
including 100 babies and children.
- Feed The Children Angola created a pilot field in Bengo province,
where small farmers learn how to manage their plots of land. They
can access information on how to deal with plant diseases and weeds,
water management, and how to get the best from their land.
- 85% of the population of Angola is dependent on subsistence farming.
However, communities returning to their lands after the civil war
usually find their plots overgrown and homes destroyed. Feed The
Children provides tools and seeds so that farmers can start again.
Our work in Angola at a glance:
- 7800 children in homeless shelters provided with food, clothing,
school materials, blankets and toys.
- 900 families provided with tools and seeds.
- 16,400 internally displaced families provided with emergency
food and essential goods.
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