0-14 years: 43.6% 15-64 years: 53.6% 65 years and over: 2.7%
Life Expectancy:
male: 36.99 years female: 38.9 years
Infant Mortality Rate: 182.31 deaths/1,000 live births
People living with HIV/AIDS: 240,000 (2003 estimate)
Literacy:
Total population: 67.4% male: 82.9% female: 54.2% (2001 estimate)
National Holiday: Independence Day, 11 November (1975)
From - World Factbook 2008
Medical Missionaries of Mary first went to Angola in 1953 and remained with the people through 27 years of civil war.
Today, thankfully, Angola enjoys peace. MMMs can be found in the cities of Lubango and Huambo, while our newest mission is being developed at Viana, a satellite town outside the Capital, Luanda. We have three professed Angolan Sisters, and a number of candidates in the initial stages of formation.
Huambo is the second largest city in Angola, and suffered terrible devastation from bombing during the civil war that lasted most of twenty-seven years until a Peace Treaty was signed on April 4, 2002.
In Lubango you'll find Sister Cecilia Asuzu who is Nigerian and Angolan Sister Josefina Lissimo.
Our Area Leader in Angola is Sister Jacintha Akonaay, a native of Tanzania. She lives in our community at Huambo where our service includes community-based healthcare, with a small clinic, education to prevent the spread of HIV, responding to the needs of people still suffering from displacement from the country's long civil war, including those maimed by landmines.
Sister Eilis Weber is a Medical Missionary of Mary who spent many years in Angola where she was Nurse Tutor at the Mission Hospital at Chiulo. In this 5-minute interview she recalls a Sunday during the long civil war in Angola...
Angola
