Dear friends, family and Acquaintances,welcome to this call for donations!With just one click you can go to participate. The Republic of Angola is located in Africa, in the South Central. It is bordered to the South by Namibia, to the North of the democratic Republic of the Congo and in the East of Zambia. The capital of Angola is Luanda and is located on the Atlantic coast. The total population of the country currently amounts to 19 million. At the beginning of the 15. Century ended up the Portuguese for the first time in Angola.Portuguese interest in Angola was slavery, was the main soon. During the Portuguese colonial rule, thousands of Angolan slaves in the sugar cane plantations were deported to São Tomé, Príncipe, and Brazil. In the 19th century. Century was Angola, one of the main suppliers of slaves for Brazil, and North and South America, including the United States. Angola said in 1962, its independence from Portugal.The guerrilla war against the Portuguese, but it ended only in 1974, when the Regime in Lisbon was overthrown by a military coup. The Power in Angola was handed over to three independent movements with different ideological Background. Angola experienced 27 years of civil war that in 2002 was officially coming to an end. During the civil war, died CA. 1.5 million people, four million were displaced. Today, the economy is one of Angola's fastest-growing economies in the world. A period of economic boom this country has made in recent times, the strongest economic power in Africa South of the Sahara.Unequal distribution of wealthAfter 27 long years of civil war, Angolan society is still struggling to process the social, physical and political scars left by the war. Although the country has experienced since the end of the civil war, the impressive economic growth that benefit only a few Angolans from this upturn. The life expectancy at birth is only 48 years and a high proportion of 30 per cent of Angolans are illiterate. The low level of social development of Angola, stands in stark contrast to the economic growth potential of the country.Angola is very rich is natural resources, especially Oil and diamonds, with approximately 60 percent of the GDP. Angola is one of the leading oil producers in Africa. While the vast majority of Angolans continue to suffer from poverty, it is largely the elites that benefit from the growing GDP of the country. While some urban areas are affected parts of Luanda of modern buildings, are the people in the "musseques”, the slums of Luanda, in Board stalls. They lack food, clean drinking water and basic sanitation.The distribution of wealth in Angola is extremely unequal. Only nine percent of the population of Luanda have access to running water. A total of 77 percent of Angolans live in poverty, many of them under extremely harsh conditions. HIV/AIDS is a persistent health problem in Angola. An estimated 200 000 Angolans are living with HIV, including 000 children under the age of 14 and 22. HIV/AIDS is most widespread in the southernmost province of Kunene, in the nearly ten percent of the population is HIV positive. As in many other African Nations, people who have been infected with HIV/AIDS are stigmatized by society and marginalized.The situation of children in AngolaHilarious (Photo: T. Figueira)The child mortality rate in Angola is among the highest in the world, of 1000 children born in Angola die 220 before they reach the age of five years. Only 20 percent of all the births in Angola are in the care of qualified medical personnel. Preventable and easily treatable diseases at the costs of Thousands of lives.In addition to HIV/AIDS many young Angola suffering of children under Malaria, measles, and diseases of the respiratory tract. In addition, millions of land mines that are still buried in unmarked areas, accidents occur frequently. An estimated 80 000 Angolans suffer physically or psychologically from the effects of injuries caused by land mines.44 percent of the
