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This woman in Kilamba Kiaxi is one of many resourceful Angolans who are helping themselves and their communities through small business activities

This woman in Kilamba Kiaxi is one of many resourceful Angolans who are helping themselves and their communities through small business activities.
Photo: CARE, Evelyn Hockstein

USAID programs help farmers across Angola get their produce to lively markets such as this one through supply chain development

USAID programs help farmers across Angola get their produce to lively markets such as this one through supply chain development.
Photo: USAID/Angola, C. Hamlin

Thanks to the economic development and growing national agricultural production supported by USAID, many Angolans are enjoying greater food security

Thanks to the economic development and growing national agricultural production supported by USAID, many Angolans are enjoying greater food security.
Photo: USAID/Angola, C. Hamlin

A USAID-funded program helped this farmer improve his potato crop

A USAID-funded program helped this farmer improve his potato crop.
Photo: USAID/Angola, C. Hamlin

Villagers in a rural area of Angola clear land as part of a USAID Food for Work (FFW) humanitarian assistance program

Villagers in a rural area of Angola clear land as part of a USAID Food for Work (FFW) humanitarian assistance program. Now, as the country is rapidly recovering from decades of civil war, USAID has phased out humanitarian assistance in favor of programs which promote development in democratic governance, essential social service delivery, and economic opportunity.
Photo: CARE, R. Bulten

USAID, in cooperation with the Cooperative League of the U.S.A (CLUSA), is supporting the extension of credit to small-scale farmers through Banco Sol, the first bank to do so in Angola

USAID, in cooperation with the Cooperative League of the U.S.A (CLUSA), hass supported credit to small-scale farmers through Banco Sol, the first bank to do so in Angola. Backed with a loan guarantee from CLUSA, Banco Sol provides in-kind credit at an affordable 10% annual interest rate. Over 500 farmers received potato seed, fertilizer, water pumps, irrigation pipes, pesticides, and sprayers. After three loan cycles, repayment rates averaged about 98.5%.
Photo: USAID/Angola

Dona Eva Castelo Fernando was one of the first clients that received a loan from NovoBanco. As a newly established commercial bank, NovoBanco's aim is to stimulate the improvement of the private sector in Angola by providing loans to micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises

Dona Eva Castelo Fernando was one of the first clients that received a loan from NovoBanco. As a newly established commercial bank, NovoBanco's aim is to stimulate the improvement of the private sector in Angola by providing loans to micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises. Novobanco is supported by the public-private partnership between USAID and ChevronTexaco.
Photo: USAID/Angola

Public-Private Alliance partners

Public-Private Alliance partners (USAID - Chevron Texaco) and implementers (CARE) attending farmers "field day."
Photo: USAID/Angola

Public-Private Alliance partners

Public-Private Alliance partners (USAID - Chevron Texaco) and implementers (World Vision) at a seed multiplication site in Huambo.
Photo: USAID/Angola

Photo of Solomay Epouca

Solomay Epouca's family of eight is one of 58,000 that received emergency food assistance and basic agricultural inputs needed to rebuild their lives after 27 years of civil war. With support from USAID and World Vision, she and her family received over 300 pounds of food and over 30 pounds of seeds, and basic tools. When asked what difference humanitarian assistance makes in her life and what her hopes are for the future Solomay said simply, "I don't have to think about what I will feed my children. Instead, I can think about my children going to school and learning things I don't know."
Photo: USAID/Angola