Angola
Angola At A Glance
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Directing HQ: Action Against Hunger - Spain
Launch Date: 1995
Beneficiaries (2009): 7,293 people
Institutional Funders: Xunta de Galicia, Castilla la Mancha
Launch Date: 1995
Beneficiaries (2009): 7,293 people
Institutional Funders: Xunta de Galicia, Castilla la Mancha
Press Contact
Carlos Riaza
Prensa y Comunicación Institucional, ACF-Spain
criaza@achesp.org
Direct: +34 91 391 53 06
Prensa y Comunicación Institucional, ACF-Spain
criaza@achesp.org
Direct: +34 91 391 53 06
After more than 30 years of bloody conflict, Action Against Hunger is assisting the population in developing agriculture and ensuring access to clean water in order for the population to be able to return to their areas of origin. ACF is also working with the health authorities in the prevention of diseases such as HIV.
Field Updates | Angola
In Search of Humanity: An Interview with Obie Porteous
September 28, 2009
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Porteous, author of In Search of Humanity: Blogs of an International Aid Worker, has worked with Action Against Hunger in five very different countries—Tajikistan, Uganda, Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, and Indonesia. He sat down with us to discuss his new book, the value of ACF’s programs, and the sheer joy of a water pump. » Read more |
Cholera Surges in Angola
May 10, 2006
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Madrid, Spain — More than 20,000 Angolans are infected by cholera. At least 900 have died already. Health institutions and humanitarian organizations are working to treat those infected by the disease and to prevent its spread. The aid organization Action Against Hunger/Action Contre la Faim (ACF) is concentrating its efforts on the municipalities of Cubal and Kayumbo, in the Benguela district in the west of the country. » Read more |
Threat of Potential Hunger Gap in Angola
May 10, 2004
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Paris, France — In Angola today, around one million citizens may be at risk of lacking sufficient food resources for a period of some months. Despite the acute risk neither the Government of Angola nor the international community has responded in the least, thereby increasing the risk. » Read more |
