Real lives
Angola’s new war: The struggle against malnutrition
CAALA, Angola, 25 May 2005 – Five-year-old Sipiriano Sangaripo is a poignant example of what many children face in Angola, which is still recovering from the effects of a long and brutal civil war.
Community-based volunteers help give children the best start in life
LUANDA, 29 October 2004 – There is no safe way to walk through Angola’s largest market, Roque Santeiro. Locals claim it to be the biggest market in all of Africa, and while that is open to debate, few doubt its reputation as an epicentre of crime. It wil
A place for Angola's hungry children
Desperately weak from successive bouts of diarrhoea, followed by malaria, seven-month-old Nuria Marcus lies listlessly in one of Angola’s 24 therapeutic feeding centres. Therapeutic feeding centres (which are for the most severe cases of malnutrition) and
Immunizing Angola’s children against measles
LUBANGO, July 2003 – Beads of sweat drip from her brow. It is just shy of 11a.m., the Angolan sun has been burning for hours, and Teresa Alcino is happy to be in the shade
Tears of joy
LUANDA, July 2003 – Amid hundreds of screaming children – some at the delight of class being out, others as a way of placating their nerves – Joaquim King gently sings into his daughter’s ear. She is one of the worried ones, unsure of what waits at the fr
