Real lives
Education in Angola: The best lesson of all
LUANDA, Juanuary 2003 - After almost three decades of destruction, Angola has drawn fresh battle lines. Education is being firmly endorsed as the engine for restoration and renewal. James Elder visits the centre of the country and finds a new front line: teachers.
Post-war reconstruction helps close gender gap in education
MATETE, Angola, 15 June 2005 - Awakened by the sunrise, 15-year-old Branca rushes to the nearest water pump, almost a kilometre away from her family’s mud hut. Before the start of her school day, she must carry a twenty-litre water bucket back home and he
Angola’s massive push to A CLASS ACT
KUITO, 1 December 2003 -- When Joana Napeio first took her seat in the new classroom built by her local community, she wanted to cry.
Passport to a better future in Angola
Juanita was born in 1987, in a small village near Katchiungo, in Angola’s Huambo province. She never met her father but knows that he was killed by a landmine. Her only brother was taken by guerillas when she was six years old.
Ínes finds fortitude and a new future in the classroom
20 July 2002, LUANDA - The noise of the barrio pervades the classroom in Father Simon Tocao School in the Barrio Popular in a Luandan slum. The open-air classroom reeks of the sweet-sour perfume of feces, heavily fried food and gritty fossil fuels.
