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.
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