Save the Children Project - Angola

Here is an example project that your money is helping in Angola. This has been taken from a Save the Children/Reckitt Benckiser newsletter so is an actual project that your money has paid for!

Antonia Kangue is a ‘soba’, a traditional chief of the village of San Jose, Huamba province.
Antonia is helping with a demonstration to his village of how to use mosquito nets and the importance of using them to prevent malaria. As the leader of the village for the last 18 years,

Antonia knows about the devastating effects of malaria on his community.

He knows that mosquito nets are the best ways to prevent mosquito bites.
‘I am lucky and so happy to see Save the Children. Before, we had no money to get the mosquito nets and children were getting sick, I am so happy and people in my village are so grateful for these mosquito nets’.

Reckitt Benckiser Global Challenge 2007

Thanks to the Save 100,000 lives campaign, children of San Jose village also received vitamin A supplements, which are essential for their healthy development. Mothers bring their babies and toddlers to receive their vitamin A pill, before they get their mosquito net to ensure that no children miss out.