Data: 24/11/06
A CORNER OF ANGOLA
A Corner of Angola
Our Association creates photographs
to portray social disadvantage
through images
and though exhibitions and events
to collect funds to bring concrete help
A
ngola, the largest country in Southern Africa, a country rich in diamonds, crude oil, coffee and cotton; Angola, a country devastated by 30 years of war; whose motto after gaining its independence from Portugal in 1975 is ‘Virtus Unita Fortior’ - Unity Provides Strength.
The country today appears profoundly splintered, the social divide huge, and the statistics speak eloquently:
Angola has the greatest number of landmines spread over its territories; second place for infant mortality, and children make up 60% of the population; 75% of the population is illiterate; There are only two universities and no valid national health system; 45% of the population suffers from malnutrition.
Adults, children, the sick, the mutilated, the hungry, are all abandoned to their destiny. Angola has need of much, food and medicine, infrastructures. We have decided to invest in education, or to say it in grander words:
“It is my passion that every child in Africa go to school. Education is the pathway to freedom, democracy and development” - Nelson Mandela
With the help of the Capuchin Fathers, present in many missions in various regions of Angola, we have picked out the orphanage of Lubango, run by Fr. Guiseppe, as our project. Next to the orphanage is a school in its final pahse of construction, which needs didactic material for children. The project is therefore to use the funds collected to buy books and other materials.
The exhibition will take place in the
Holiday Inn
EUR Parco de’ Medici
on 1, 2 & 3 December
and together with a Gospel concert at 8 pm, at
St. Paul’s Within the Walls,
22nd December
Never fear shadows.
They simply mean there’s a light
shining somewhere nearby.
Ruth. E. Renkel
