Angola

UNICEF

Hostilities ended abruptly in April 2002, opening up vast tracts of previously inaccessible areas and millions more Angolans in need of UNICEF help. Critical first steps taken in 2003 when UNICEF launched the country’s biggest-ever health and education campaigns.
- Almost half of the previously unregistered 4.5 million children now have birth certificates.
- Back to School campaign prompted the government to add $40 million to its education budget.
- Former child soldiers supported with Family Tracing & Reunification, vocational training, social support and access to education.

UNICEF goals in Angola are to:

- Reduce child mortality, promote education for all and implant in the political agenda the priorities for children and their rights.
- Create appropriate conditions of resettlement for the 3 million Angolans who have returned home (1.2 million are still to return home).
- Restore basic health and education systems across the country – advancing a gradual shift from immunization campaigns to routine immunization.
- Engage the government to use its resources and build partnerships with all levels of society to promote development in Angola.
- To go to scale, nationally, re-establish social systems, and engage the government’s resources in reconstructing the country’s basic infrastructure.

The situation of children in Angola

- 60 per cent of Angolans are children.
- Almost half of Angola’s children are out of school.
- 45 per cent suffer chronic malnutrition.
- One in four die before their fifth birthday. (Angola has the world’s fourth worst child mortality rate.)
- 100,000 children were separated from their families during the war.
- 4.5 million children were not registered.
- Just under half of the population has no access to clean and safe water.
- There are as many landmines in Angola as children.

www.unicef.org/angola