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Province of Southern Africa
Angola
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others’ Union has a vital role to play in the future development of
Angola working with the whole community to alleviate poverty,
build strong relationships and transform communities. Outreach
projects encourage women to work together towards development,
alongside small individual and group income-generating activities.
Sewing project ‘Indispensable’ role
In 2005, Mothers’ Union in Angola started a The Anglican Church has decided to scale
sewing project for disadvantaged women, up work with other partners in Angola, with
many of whom are widows. The women are the hope of opening up feeding centres
taught to sew, producing clothes that they with the World Food Programme through
can sell as a means of generating an church schools. During a visit to Angola in
income. 2007, the Archbishop of Canterbury stated ‘I
think for the role of women in particular in
The small agricultural projects run by Africa, the Church has been utterly
women to raise an income and to feed their indispensable.’ Mothers’ Union is playing its
families are handicapped by the landmine part by collecting food and clothes for the
situation in some parts of Angola. Nobody needy and displaced.
knows how many landmines lurk beneath
the soil. Some experts say it may be During a Mothers’ Union conference in Uige
between 500,000 and 1,000,000; others say and Luanda the following sources of
there may be as many as 6,000,000. violence were identified: unemployment,
Although clearance programmes are corruption, prostitution, illiteracy, drugs,
underway, they are slow to make progress alcoholism, insecurity and some traditional
and people are afraid to cultivate new customs which particularly affect women.
ground.
Fact File
Population: 12,531,000
Mothers’ Union membership: 1500
Angola is a vast country in Southern Africa,
bordering the Democratic Republic of Congo,
Zambia and Namibia, with a South Atlantic
coastline.
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