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Friday, December 20, 2024

Nurturing Resilience: WVA's Integrated Response to Drought and Malnutrition in Angola

Angola has been facing severe drought for the last 5 years. WVA responds with emergency and resilience projects, including food, potable water, and agricultural support.

Climate change: A common enemy leaving families increasingly vulnerable

Climate change: A common enemy leaving families increasingly vulnerable

For years, nature has shown its wear and tear due to global warming, and as a result of that, disasters have become more and more frequent. The south of...

16 Days of Activism - SAR

World Vision staff and partners call for an end to GBV across Southern Africa

World Vision staff and partners from across the Southern Africa region joined the world in observing this year's 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based...

Children from the Cahama reception center, Cunene

Angola: Saving lives through a multi-sectoral response to hunger and malnutrition

World Vision is partnering with the Government of Angola to implement the PFSS (Programa de Fortalecimento do Sector Saúde). Working alongside the Ministry...

Em Luanda, Angola, a luta contra a COVID-19 ganha força por meio do envolvimento de voluntários e da advocacia com o governo para mudar vidas

COVID-19: Impact of our Emergency Response in Luanda

COVID-19 response efforts went far beyond their purpose of spreading prevention and hygiene messages. Without a doubt, the response has improved the lives...

Hunger crisis in Angola

Hunger's assault: Hundreds of children in Angola affected by nutrition crisis

Dr. Flora Vanda Calivangue, the Provincial Supervisor for Nutrition, sounded the alarm in March 2021 when the paediatric unit of the biggest hospital in...

Angola Women's Month 2021

World Vision and partners mark women's month in Angola with focus on empowerment

Gender equality affirms the value and dignity of women and men, and allows individuals to grow and societies to develop. To drive and consolidate our...

Angola Awareness Raising on COVID-19

World Vision is collaborating with government to slow down the spread of COVID-19 in Angola

The COVID-19 pandemic is distressing the world’s stability and its economy. Angola is currently facing a health crisis similar to what several others are...

Mother who lost her son to malnutrition in Angola

Mother devastated after loosing her child to hunger in Angola

By Antonio Matimbe, World Vision Communications Officer, Angola Angola is currently facing the most severe drought in 38 years. Failed rains have led...

Child forced to spend months in the bush with cattle following drought in Angola

Drought dries up dreams in Angola as families struggle to survive

Ndjiole, 16, should be at school. Instead, he was forced to drop out and leave home looking from green pasture and water for the cattle, the only means his...

Drought and Desperation are Separating Families in Angola

Estela Antonio travels from Angola to Namibia with her four-month-old daughter, Innocencia, to earn an income. Drought and hunger have left people in her...

When Finding Water is a Fulltime Job

Lazaro is a hard-working 23-year-old man who lives in Cunene Province, Southern Angola. It's one of the worst-affected areas by the drought in Southern...

The Rate of Malnutrition Raising in Southern Africa

Malnutrition is rising across Southern Africa because of a severe drought. At Chiulo Hospital in Cunene Province in Angola, child deaths because of...

The Story of Beto

Beto is only six months old. Instead of enjoying a joyful infancy, he is fighting to grow and develop as his body deals with the effects of being...

Global acute Malnutrition rate

Beto, Fighting Malnutrition as an Infant in Angola

Beto is only six months old. Instead of enjoying a joyful infancy, he is fighting to grow and develop as his body deals with the effects of being...

The water drama

Drought forces families to leave their homes in search for food and water in Cunene province

A devastating drought, considered the worst in 38 years, is affecting 2.3 million of people in the South of Angola: Cunene, Huila, Namibe and Kuando...

The drama of Mima

The drama of a mother who had to see one of her children loose his physical abilities

Mima is a 32 year old mother of six children. She is also a refugee in the Lovua Settlement, Lunda Norte, Angola. Since April 2017, thousands of people...

How the concept of saving is changing the lives of women and their families in Angola

Although Angola is the second largest oil producer in Africa, poverty levels are still very high and many families still live below the poverty line. Most...

ADECOS the hope for those without access to basic health services

Malaria continues to be the leading cause of infant mortality in Angola. Between January and August 2018, there were over 8,000 malaria-related deaths...

A refugee but also an influential community mobiliser

Angola, August 2018 -28-year-old Matambo is a mother with two daughters, and now lives as a refugee in Angola, the Settlement of Lovua, northern part of...

Mother living with HIV forms support group

By Célio Njinga, HSS Program Manager Twenty-eight-year-old Mizé, of Lubango in southern Angola is helping transform the lives of other women living with...

Winning the battle against child malnutrition through therapeutic food

For years, malnutrition has been affecting 450,000 children from 0-5 years old in Angola. A malnourished child finds that their body has difficulty doing...

Seeds distribution a lifesaving mechanism for malnourished children

Author Eunice Lopes Communications and Program Officer Angola faced a severe drought that significantly impacted the lives of thousands of people. Large...

An uncertain future for most vulnerable children in Lunda Norte

Célio Njinga HSS Program Manager Dundo, Angola - A comprehensive response is needed in the Northern part of Angola, where until now over 30.000 refugees...

The Adecos bring hope to malaria prone villages

Author Eunice Lopes Communications and Program Officer Malaria continues to be one of the major public health problems in Angola and is the principal cause...