USAID Angola: From the American People

In Utalala, province of Benguela, members of locally-elected Community Development Groups are training in how to detect and prevent conflict within their community before it starts.
Photo: Benjamin Sandel

Bailundo was one of the epicenters of intense conflict during Angola’s civil war. Here, women representing different political parties and other social groups have organized with assistance from Search for Common Ground to form a Women’s Reconciliation Group that works in their community to use and teach mediation skills for preventing and resolving conflicts.
Photo: USAID/Angola, C. Hamlin

Estevão Gonçalves Chipeu, Administrator of Tumbulu, and Verónica Lucas, Vice-Administrator of Tumbulu municipality, in Benguela province, say that the peace-building and conflict mitigation trainings CRS (Catholic Relief Services) has been doing in their communities has helped them to be "more developed than others, and more active", and their role in governing the municipality has been easier because the benefiting communities have more contact with the administration.
Photo: USAID/Angola, C. Hamlin

Women working and doing chores by the water point project in Lubango, in Huíla province. This is one of the USAID-supported activities through the ADF (Amrerican Development Foundation) program.
Photo: USAID/Angola, I. Williams

Bailundo Kingdom, Huambo province: In the heart of intense conflict during Angola’s civil war, the King soba, or traditional chief, is making preparations for a ceremony of blessing to the ancestor soba kinds of Bailundo. He is one of several sobas that have been trained by Search for Common Ground on conflict prevention and mitigation in this region.
Photo: USAID/Angola, C. Hamlin

Members build a teacher’s house in the Municipality of Cacula, Lubango, in Huíla province. This is one of the USAID-supported activities through the ADF (America’s Development Foundation) project.
Photo: USAID/Angola, I. Williams