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MUNGO
 Food
distribution programme
Mungo and Cambuengo, Huambo province
Objectives
Meet the immediate needs of vulnerable populations
Beneficiaries
33 000 people (6 500 families)
Food safety programme, Mungo,
Huambo province
Objectives
Improve food safety in the Mungo area in order to reduce the level
of malnutrition and help demobilized families to return home by
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meeting the immediate vital needs of these families
setting
up subsistance farming
reviving agricultural associations
Emergency sanitation programme,
Mungo, Huambo province
Objectives
Improve the sanitary conditions of the Mungo community by :
improving the availability of drinking water (rehabilitation and
construction of wells)
reducing the risk of water-borne diseases (latrines + sanitation
blocks)
hygiene awareness programmes
Beneficiaries
20 000 people (4 000 families)
MUSSENDE
 Food
distribution programme
Mussende, Kwanza SUL province
Objectives
Meet the immediate needs of vulnerable populations
Beneficiaries
23 500 people (4 700 families)
Food safety programme
Mussende, Kwanza SUL province
Objectives
Improve the sanitary conditions of the Mussende community by :
improving the availability of drinking water (rehabilitation and
construction of wells)
reducing the risk of water-borne diseases (latrines + sanitation
blocks)
hygiene awareness programmes
Beneficiaries
35 000 people (5 900 families)
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PROGRAMME EAU, HYGIENE ET ASSAINISSEMENT DANS LES MUNICIPALITES
DE MUNGO et MUSSENDE
 Objectives
Improve access to drinking water and improve sanitary
conditions linked to water usage and basic hygiene for vulnerable
populations in Mungo and Mussende municipalities.
Activities
Provide support to existing facilities in these municipalities,
including 17 schools, 8 health centres and the Mussende market
Construction of 70 wells and 121 fountains
Creation of 82 "Water management committees"
Equip schools and health centres in both municipalities with
latrines
Build 165 family latrines in Mungo municipality
Educational activities to promote basic hygiene, through 400
training sessions in Mungo municipality, and 90 in Mussende
municipality.
Distribution of 7300 posters
Distribution of 10 L buckets and 20 L jerrycans to 1650 families
Number of beneficiaries :
53 000
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Our
action in Mungo and Mussende in 2003 |
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- Distribution programme in Mungo ; Partner
: WFP (United Nations World Food Programme)
This distribution programme, which commenced in November 2002,
was aimed at families with at least one malnourished child. One
food distribution of WFP rations was made per month. 25 trucks
transported the rations from Huambo to Mungo each month, and their
distribution represented a whole week's work, including various
checks to identify beneficiaries and the actual time taken to
distribute the rations. This programme reached around 5,000
families, or around 35,000 people. With former UNITA fighters
returning home, this programme took on a new dimension since each
former soldier and his family received food.
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Food safety programme in Mungo and Mussende ; Partner : Coopération
Française
Complementary to the food distribution programme, the food safety
programme commenced following the first emergency distributions.
The prime objective during the first two months after our arrival
in Angola was to first distribute food rations to vulnerable populations
in Mungo before distributing seeds, to avoid these seeds being eaten.
This programme relied mainly upon close collaboration with agricultural
associations working in Mungo. Once seed distributions had been
diversified, more specific work was carried out to set up a programme
covering both the Mungo area (40,000 beneficiaries) and Mussende
area (35,000 beneficiaries). A needs assessment for the Mussende
area led us to open a new operational base. Specific actions are
to follow the food distributions carried out in partnership with
the WFP (revival of animal stocks, assistance for beekeeping, distributions
of seeds and tools), which aim to provide long-term food resources
for the families of farmers, former soldiers, and refugees returning
home.  -
Access to water and sanitation programme in Mungo
This ambitious programme, carried out in partnership with OCHA,
resulted in a radical improvement in the living conditions of
60,000 people living in Mungo and the isolated villages of Tchimbula,
Elimbundo, Damasco and Villa Graça : 12 wells were rehabilitated
or built, 4 of which were for schools, 2 springs were fitted out
and 22 hand-pumps were installed; in addition, 22 washing areas
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| Angola, a former Portuguese colony, has been ravaged by violence
since its independance in 1975. Civil war raged between the MPLA
(Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola), loyal to President
Dos Santos, and Jonas Savimbi's UNITA movement (National Union for
the Total Independence of Angola). The death of Jonas Savimbi, in
March 2002, and the subsequent signature of a cease-fire on April
5th, finally allowed humantarian organisations to reach abandoned,
inaccessible populations, cut off from all humanitarian aid for
years.
Population : 12 million inhabitants
Size : 1 246 700
Km2
Languages : Portuguese (official
language), Bantu and other african dialects
Capital : Luanda
Major ethnic groups: Ovimbundu
(37 % of the population), Kimbundu (25 % of the population), Bakongo
(13 % of the population).
Life expectancy: 38,59 years
(37,36 for men, 39,87 for women)
Infant mortality rate : 193,72
deaths per 1,000 live births.
Maternal mortality in childbirth : 1,850 maternal deaths
for 100,000 live births.
Access to drinking water : over 40% of Angolans do not
have access to sufficient drinking water
Access to hygiene : over 80% of the urban population in
Angola do not have access to basic hygiene facilities.
Average rate of inflation in 2000
: 325 %
Access to education : over 80% of Angolan children to not
have access to appropriate education, over one million children
do are outside the school system.
Rate of literacy : 42 % (56
% for men, 28 % for women)
Development ranking (UN annual ranking) : Angola is in
161st place for a total of 173 countries. |
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